Monday, September 20, 2010

Korea HEIs in five different rankings




I compiled five different ranking systems around the world this year.

In Korea, we see QS World Universities Ranking, THE Ranking, ShanghaiJT ranking often. Leiden ranking isn't that popular here in Seoul as well as webometrics ranking. But I have encluded Webometrics ranking in the hope that more Korean HEIs pay attention to their website or web identity in this information society. Still many Korean HEIs website isn't that assessible from abroad and those English pages give few information comparing Korean pages.

Summing up this graph,
only four universities are included in all five ranking system.
- Seoul National University
- Kaist
- Postech
- Yonsei University

After this, four universities are ranked in four different rankings system.
- Korea University
- Hanyang University
- Pusan National
- Kyungpook National

After this, two universities are ranked in three systems
- Kyung Hee University
- SKKU

This doesn't mean these listed are the best one in Korea, but we can assume that these are the ones that globally mentioned more often than other universities.

Although those 10 universities can't be called "top 10 in Korea" but, we can regard them as most well sited 10 universities in Korea.

One thing to note is that in Korea there are many good private universities such as Postech, Yonsei, Korea, Hanyang, Kyung Hee and SKKU named in rankings.

Wish this gives some idea on Korea HEIs.

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