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Two Chinese universities make progress in world university reputation rankings

Xinhua, March 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Harvard University has again won the laurel of world's most prestigious university, while two Chinese higher education institutions Tsinghua and Peking also made good progress, according to the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2015.

Times Higher Education (THE) published the 2015 THE World Reputation Rankings on Wednesday, revealed a new round of the top 100 universities across the world.

According to the reputation rankings, China has five, including Tsinghua, which moved to 26th from 36th last year, and Peking rose nine places to 32. It said both Tsinghua and Peking secured their highest ever positions.

The University of Hong Kong slipped out of the top 50 from 43rd to the 51-60 band, while National Taiwan University dropped to the 61-70 band, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology also slipped a band to 71-80.

According to the rankings, the top ten universities are all located in the United States and Britain. Harvard University retained the first place, while Cambridge moved to the second from the fourth a year ago. University of Oxford stood at the third, up two places from the fifth last year.

New rankings showed the United States is the country with most higher education institutions -- 43 institutions in the top 100. Britain is the second with 12, and Germany ranked the third with six.

The highest ranking of Asian University was seized by University of Tokyo, which taking the 12th place, but dropped one from last year. Endit