London, 6th June 2018: Tsinghua University has entered the top 20 of the world’s most-consulted international university ranking for the first time. The fifteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings, released today by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds, sees China’s highest-ranked university rise from 25th to 17th. This makes it the first Chinese university to feature in the global top 20 since QS adopted new methodological enhancements in 2015.

　　伦敦时间2018年6月6日：全球高等教育研究机构QS Quacquarelli Symonds于今天发布了第十五期QS世界大学排名，中国排名最高的清华大学从世界25位升至第17位。清华大学首次进入全球最受瞩目的世界大学排名前20位。这是自2015年QS采用新排名算法以后，首次有中国大学进入世界前20名。

　　Globally, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is named the world’s leading university for a record-breaking seventh consecutive year, while Asia’s top university is the National University of Singapore (11th). QS now rank the world’s top 1000 universities, which hail from 85 different countries, and their flagship website, www.TopUniversities.com is due to be visited over 65 million times this year.

　　在全球范围内，麻省理工学院连续第七年被评为世界第一，而亚洲最顶尖大学则由新加坡国立大学摘取(第11名)。 QS此次排出了世界前1000位的大学，横跨85个不同国家地区，其门户网站www.TopUniversities.com今年将预计访问超过6500万次。

　　[推荐阅读：2019年QS世界大学排名Top200完整版]

　　China – Key Facts

　　中国-关键点

　　· Tsinghua’s performance is the highlight of a successful year for the Chinese higher education system;

　　· 40 Chinese institutions are ranked this year, one more than in last year’s edition of the rankings (the top 10 list can be found below);

　　· 19 of these universities improve, including four of China’s top 5. 11 universities drop, while nine remain stable in their position or band;

　　· Peking University has enjoyed a fourth consecutive year of improvement, reaching a new high. It is now 30th, up from 38th;

　　· The results mean that China has more top-100 universities than any other Asian nation, territory, or location (6). Its system is ahead of Japan and South Korea (5 top-100 universities each), Hong Kong S.A.R. (4 top-100 universities), and Singapore (2 top-100 universities);

　　· China’s improvements can be primarily attributed to the nation’s excellent research performance;

　　· 28 of China’s 40 ranked universities (70%) improve their rank in QS’s Citations per Faculty indicator, which measures an institution’s research impact. Five Chinese institutions are among the top 100 for research effectiveness: University of Science and Technology of China (17th, 98.4/100), Nanjing University (87.8/100, 45th), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (85.0/100, 50th), Tsinghua University (77.4/100, 70th), and East China University of Science and Technology (70.3/100, 99th);

　　· 清华大学的突出表现代表了近年来中国高等教育体系的成功发展。

　　· 今年有40所中国大学进入榜单，超过去年(排名前十详情见下文)。

　　· 这些大学中有19所大学(前五中有四所)排名升高，有11所大学排名下降，另外九所排名保持稳定，还有一所新进入榜单。

　　· 北京大学连续第四年排名升高。今年排名创下新高，从去年的第38名升至世界第30名。

　　· 此次排名结果意味着中国大陆拥有比其他亚洲国家和地区更多的世界前100大学(6所)。中国大陆高等教育系统已领先日本和韩国(各5所前100名大学)、中国香港地区(4所前100所大学)和新加坡(前100所大学);

　　· 中国大学的排名提高主要归功于卓越的研究成果。

　　· 中国40所大学中有28所(70%)在QS学院引文指数有所提高，该指标用于衡量机构的文献研究影响力。五所中国得分最高的大学分别是：中国科学技术大学(第17名，98.4 / 100)，南京大学(87.8 / 100,45)，上海交通大学(85.0 / 100,50)，清华大学(77.4 / 100,70)和华东理工大学(70.3 / 100,99);

　　完整排名请前往QS官网查看

　　Global Highlights

　　全球亮点

　　· The UK’s top institution has changed for the first time since QS began compiling the rankings alone (2011), with the University of Oxford (5th) usurping its longtime rival, the University of Cambridge (6th);

　　· Both the United Kingdom and the United States have seen their performance stabilize, with slightly more improvements than drops;

　　· Continental Europe’s best university remains ETH Zurich, which has reached its all-time highest rank (7th) after improving its research performance and faculty/student ratio;

　　· Singapore is again home to Asia’s two best universities. The National University of Singapore regains the continental supremacy it lost last year, rising to 11th position. Nanyang Technological University ranks 12th.

　　· Australia loses its only top-20 institution, with the Australian National University falling from 20th to 24th.

　　· 自QS开始编排各国大学独立排名(2011年)以来，英国顶级学府的位次首次发生了变化，牛津大学(世界第5)超过了其长期竞争对手剑桥大学(世界第6)。

　　· 英国和美国的大学都表现稳定，多数大学排名提高。

　　· 欧洲大陆最好的大学仍然是苏黎世联邦理工学院(ETH Zurich)，它在提高其学术引用评分和教师/学生比例后已达到其历史最高排名(世界第7)。

　　· 亚洲排名最高的大学依然来自新加坡。新加坡国立大学去年夺回亚洲霸主地位，升至第11位。南洋理工大学排名第12位。

　　· 而澳大利亚则失去了其唯一的前20名大学，澳大利亚国立大学从去年的世界第20名下降到第24名。

　　完整排名请前往QS官网查看

　　QS University Rankings

　　QS世界大学排名

　　QS Quacquarelli Symonds have been compiling university rankings since 2004, when they published their inaugural QS World University Rankings. Since then, QS’s rankings have grown to be the world’s most popular source of comparative data about university performance. Their Subject rankings tables were visited over 30 million times in 2017, and their overall rankings tables over 57 million times.

　　The project has expanded to include: 5 regional rankings, the QS Best Student Cities ranking, rankings by Subject Area, the QS Higher Education System Strength Ranking, and, most recently, the QS Graduate Employability Ranking. QS’s research is featured by media outlets across the world, with over 46,000 media clippings related to QS published in 2017.

　　QS Quacquarelli Symonds从2004年开始编写大学排名，当时他们发布了世界首个QS世界大学排名。从那时起，QS的排名已经成为世界上最受欢迎的评价大学表现的比较数据来源。 2017年QS的主题排名表访问量超过3000万次，总体排名访问量超过5700万次。

　　该项目已扩展至包括：5个地区排名，QS最佳学生城市排名，QS世界大学学科领域排名，QS高等教育系统实力排名，以及最近的QS毕业生就业排名。 QS的研究成果是全球媒体的重点报道对象，2017年共有46000多个媒体剪报报道了与QS相关的内容。

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