The 75 most innovative universities in Asia 2016

South Korea and Japan lead Reuters’ Asia innovation ranking

九月 5, 2016

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View Times Higher Education's list of the top universities in Asia 2016

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has topped the Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities ranking, with the University of Tokyo and Seoul National University completing the top three.

The innovation league table aims to identify the universities that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.

It follows on from Reuters’ list of the most innovative universities in Europe earlier this year and the most innovative universities in the world last year – a topic that Times Higher Education has also investigated in some depth.

South Korea and Japan are the only countries that make the top 10 – the nations each claim five places in this elite cohort. The National University of Singapore is the top university outside these countries at 11th.

However, China is the most-represented country in the table with 22 institutions, including those in Hong Kong. South Korea and Japan each have 20.

The list also includes institutions in New Zealand and Australia; their leading institutions are the University of Auckland in 27th and the University of Sydney at 28th respectively.

The Reuters top 75 most innovative universities in Asia 2016

Rank	University	Country
1	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
2	University of Tokyo	Japan
3	Seoul National University	South Korea
4	Osaka University	Japan
5	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
6	Tohoku University	Japan
7	Kyoto University	Japan
8	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
9	Yonsei University	South Korea
10	Keio University	Japan
11	National University of Singapore	Singapore
12	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
13	Tsinghua University	China
14	Korea University	South Korea
15	Hanyang University	South Korea
16	Peking University	China
17	Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea
18	Kyushu University	Japan
19	Nagoya University	Japan
20	Hokkaido University	Japan
21	Chinese University of Hong Kong	China
22	Ajou University	South Korea
23	Zhejiang University	China
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
25	Kyung Hee University	South Korea
26	Hiroshima University	Japan
27	University of Auckland	New Zealand
28	University of Sydney	Australia
29	University of Tsukuba	Japan
30	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China
31	Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)	Japan
32	Monash University	Australia
33	The University of Queensland	Australia
34	University of Melbourne	Australia
35	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
36	Fudan University	China
37	Chonnam National University	South Korea
38	Okayama University	Japan
39	Shinshu University	Japan
40	Kumamoto University	Japan
41	Tianjin University	China
42	Kanazawa University	Japan
43	Ewha Womans University	South Korea
44	Inha University	South Korea
45	East China University of Science and Technology	China
46	Chiba University	Japan
47	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China
48	Waseda University	Japan
49	South China University of Technology	China
50	Kyungpook National University	South Korea
51	Chonbuk National University	South Korea
52	University of New South Wales	Australia
53	Catholic University of Korea	South Korea
54	Pusan National University	South Korea
55	Nanjing University	China
56	University of Hong Kong	China
57	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
58	Southeast University	China
59	Konkuk University	South Korea
60	Kobe University	Japan
61	Dalian University of Technology	China
62	Nankai University	China
63	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
64	Xian Jiaotong University	China
65	Chung-Ang University	South Korea
66	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	China
67	Sichuan University	China
68	Sun Yat-sen University	China
69	Gyeongsang National University	South Korea
70	Nihon University	Japan
71	Indian Institute of Technology	India
72	Indian Institute of Science	India
73	Universiti Putra Malaysia	Malaysia
74	University of South Australia	Australia
75	University of Malaya	Malaysia