Within Asia Within Asia, China does fairly well compared to its neighbors. China is represented by 15 universities1.

This number is only surpassed by Japan (22 universities) and Taiwan (17 universities). The Republic of Korea is close with 14 universities and other countries have a handful of universities each: Hong Kong (6), Turkey (5), Israel (4), India (3), Iran (3), Saudi Arabia (3), Thailand (3), Singapore (2), Lebanon (1), Malaysia (1), and United Arab Emirates (1). The 5 indicators used in the assessment are citation, industry income, international outlook, research, and teaching. Removing all countries with less than 10 represented universities, there is no significant difference in citations ( ) or research ( ) among the remaining countries. For international outlook, China scored significantly higher than Japan ( ) and Taiwan ( ). For teaching, China scored significantly higher than Taiwan ( ). Worldwide China, unfortunately, does not fare so well in the overall international arena. The worldwide datasets compare universities in the same indicators as above but also separates them out by field: arts and humanities, clinical and health, engineering and technology, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. Overall, in the top 200 ranked universities worldwide, China is only represented by 2 universities (Peking University #46 and Tsinghua University #52). The United States led with 76 universities, followed by the United Kingdom with 31 universities, and the Netherlands with 12 universities. China had zero representation in the top 50 for arts and humanities, clinical and health, and life sciences categories. China had 1 university representing engineering and technology (Tsinghua University #31), physical sciences (Peking University #45), and social sciences (Peking University #41). For engineering and technology, Tsinghua University scored high in teaching (87.2), industry income (98.4), and research (88.7) but low in citations (38.3), and international outlook (22.6). For physical sciences, Peking University scored high in industry income (100), mediocre in teaching (76.9) and research (74.6), and low in citations (58.1) and international outlook (34). Similarly for social sciences, Peking University scored high in industry income (100), mediocre in citations (76), and low in teaching (65.1) and research (55.8). Peking University, however, did score high in international outlook (82) in the social sciences. [There is, sadly, not enough representation from China for me to do any stats to compare it to other countries.] My impression is that overall, China is doing well within Asia but on an international scope, theyre not competing at the top level and are nowhere near the US in terms of the total number of high-ranking institutions. Ranking is, of course, not everything but with only 2 universities in the top 200 worldwide, China does not have the number of institutions to put out great graduates from their universities. Maybe this is why the #1 complain of MNCs in China is that there is a lack of talent pool in hiring within China despite the vast numbers of graduating students. Whats also troubling is Chinas complete absence in the life sciences, clinical and health, and arts and humanities arenas. These are important areas that are obviously not getting support or funding (or maybe are just completely non-existent) from the central government. 4. Peking University, 6. Tsinghua University, 24. Fudan University, 25. University of Science and Technology in China, 35. Nanjin University, 40. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 41. Renmin University of China, 45. Zhejiang University, 51. Sun Yat-sen University, 58. Wuhan University, 59. Wuhan University of Technology, 66. Harbin Institute of Technology, 80. Dalian University of Technology, 89. Xi'an Jiaotong University, 99. Huazhong University of Science and Technology