The Shanghai Jiaotong University recently published its 2008 ranking of universities in the world. Landing at 308^th place, NTHU is nine notches up from last year's. Taiwanese universities that made it into the top 500 are, in order, the National Taiwan University, NTHU, National Chiao Tung University, National Cheng Kung University, Chang Gung University and National Central University, National Yang Ming University.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is published by the Shanghai Jiaotong University every August. Based on academic performance, ranking is determined by six indicators, namely: Alumni (alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals), Award (staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals); HiCi (highly cited researchers in twenty-one subject categories); N&S (articles published in Nature and Science); SCIE (articles indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded) and SSCI (articles indexed in Social Science Citation Index); and PCP (per capita academic performance of an institution). The ranking system remains more or less the same as that of previous years with the exception of the code of two indicators being changed from "SCI" to "PUB" and "Size" to "PCP."

In this ranking, NTHU has kept its record as the number one university in Taiwan in two indicators, i.e. Alumni and PCP. NTHU has on average the highest faculty academic performance. In previous years, NTHU ranked 353^rd in 2004, 351^st in 2005, 345^th in 2006, 317^th this year and 308^th in 2008. Such records clearly indicated our own ceasing effort to improve!

Related link: 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities
http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/EN2008.htm