[2018 World University Rankings] SKKU ranked 100th Globally
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- 2018-06-19
[2018 World University Rankings]
More Paper Citation Counts than Korea University & Yonsei University
More Paper Citation Counts than Korea University & Yonsei University
This year's 'QS World University Rankings' announced extraordinary results for Korean universities that broke the 'SKY (Seoul, Korea, Yonsei) dominance. After Seoul National University (36th) and Korea University (86th) came Sungkyunkwan University (100th) which is above Yonsei University. Yonsei, at 107th was 7 spots behind SKKU. Excluding KAIST and Postech, the order was SNU, KU and Sungkyunkwan University.
SKKU is a new entrant in the top 100 in this year's Rankings. An SKKU alumni said: "Fifteen years ago people laughed at the idea, but SKKU really has a shot at overtaking the “dominance” of SKY".
Yonsei ranked 114th 5 years ago which was way above Korea (145th) and Sungkyunkwan (162nd). However, Korea broke into the top 100 in 2016 and Sungkyunkwan this year.
SKKU was ahead of Yonsei in areas like 'Students per Faculty’ (SKKU 95th, Yonsei 111th), 'Paper Citation Counts per Faculty’ (SKKU 295th, Yonsei 380th), 'Alumni Reputation’ (SKKU 69th, Yonsei 71st). Yonsei (114th) was 18 notches ahead of SKKU (132nd) in 'Assessment in Academic Field' but could not bridge the gap in the final rankings.
In this year's rankings, SKKU was above Korea &Yonsei University in 'Paper Citation Counts per Faculty'. University officials from SKKU said: "Investing in Neuroscience & Nanoscience and achieving Nobel prize-like outcomes in the Solid Solar Cell area are reasons why citation counts went up”. 'Students per Faculty' ranking moved up as the number of full-time faculty increased from 1,250 in 2011 to 1437 in 2017. As a result, SKKU ranked 100th in this year's rankings compared to 179th in 2012 rankings.
Link to the original article in Chosun newspaper(Korean): http://reurl.kr/26B2CB3OS
Link to the original article in Chosun newspaper(Korean): http://reurl.kr/26B2CB3OS