16 June 2021
The Nanyang Technological University has been ranked fifth among Asia’s top universities, while the National University of Singapore was ranked third place in the latest rankings by Times Higher Education.
Times Higher Education assessed the universities based on 13 performance indicators that are grouped into five areas: teaching (the learning environment), research (volume, income and reputation), citations (research influence), international outlook (staff, students and research) and industry income (knowledge transfer).
NUS noted that the recent developments in the world have accelerated the push for universities worldwide to transform and enhance their contributions to society.
An NUS spokesman said: “We have been sharpening our graduate’s competencies and preparing them to be more agile and adaptable by intensifying our focus on interdisciplinarity, experiential and cross-cultural learning, alongside our efforts in lifelong learning initiatives.”