The result of Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-2018 is announced on September 5, 2017. This year’s ranking lists 1102 top universities from 77 countries, including 63 universities of Chinese Mainland. Shantou University is in the 601-800 band, ranking 23rd among all the listed Chinese Mainland universities. Besides, a total of four universities in Guangdong Province are listed into this ranking : Sun Yat-sen University, Shantou University, South China University of Technology and Jinan University.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings has been announced by Times Higher Education every year since the November of 2004. The top universities rankings use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators which includes education, research, citation, industry income and internationalization to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons. This ranking is considered as one of the most authoritative and most influential worldwide university rankings.
From September 3 to 5, over five hundred representatives from 40 countries and regions attended Times Higher Education World Academic Summit which was held in London University. The topic of this conference was “Cooperation creates a better world: A new model for research universities”. Professor Gu Peihua, the executive principal of STU, and Professor Liu Wenhua, the president of College of Science attended the conference.
In recent years, Shantou University sticks firmly to the principle that education should be international and meticulous, and it also carries out comprehensive reforms on the educational pattern, scientific research and academic quality and school management system, which makes great achievements. Thus, its education quality and level are widely accepted by higher education sector at home and abroad. From 2015 to 2017, Shantou University has been listed into Times Higher Education World University Rankings for three years. In 2017, Shantou University is listed into Young University Rankings 2017. In 2016, Shantou University was awarded the 2016 QS World University Four-Star rating.
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