Mainland Chinese universities break into group’s top 100 ranking of colleges for first time
Peking University and Tsinghua make it into top echelons of list
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday.
China’s prestigious Tsinghua University was 58th, beating elite Peking University into 71st place in the “Academic Ranking of World Universities” compiled by the independent Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
The National University of Singapore also entered the top 100 for the first time, tying for 83rd, it said.
Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
Stanford maintained second place, but MIT dropped from third to fifth with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cambridge each moving up one spot to take third and fourth.
The Shanghai Ranking is consistently largely static at its top levels and this year nine of the top 20 were in unchanged positions and another nine moved by only one place.