In the “QS University Rankings: Asia 2016” released yesterday morning, it was revealed that Chulalongkorn earned 69.8 points.

The second Thai educational institution on the list was Mahidol University, which was ranked 61st with 62.5 points. Thammasat University was ranked 101st with 47.4 points, while Chiang MaiUniversity finished in the 104th place with 47 points. Kasetsart University came in at 129th with 40.9 points, while King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi stood at 161st with 35 points.

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Singapore tops list

Khon Kaen University was ranked 165th with 34.8 points and Prince of Songkla University came in at 185th with 31.8 points.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is still at the top spot with 100 points, followed closely by the University of Hong Kong with 98.5 points. Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, meanwhile, rose by one place to finish third with 98.4 points.

QS said the scores were based on nine indicators: academic reputation (30 per cent), employer reputation (20 per cent), faculty/student ratio (15 per cent), citations per paper (10 per cent), papers per faculty (10 per cent), staff with PhDs (5 per cent), proportion of international faculty (2.5 per cent) and proportion of international students (2.5 per cent), proportion of inbound exchange students (2.5 per cent), and proportion of outbound exchange students (2.5 per cent).

QS has expanded the top Asian universities list to include the region’s 350 best universities, 50 more than in the previous year. It has also added another metric – PhD holders among staff – to add another dimension to its analyses.