TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — National Taiwan University (NTU) is ranked 68th globally and 19th in Asia according to the latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2025.

In the new QS rankings unveiled on Tuesday (June 4), National Taiwan University (NTU) was listed 68th with an overall score of 68.7, just below Korea University and one spot above the University of Warwick. 

Taiwan moved up one spot from its 69th ranking last year, and it was the only Taiwan university to make it to the top 100, while the rest placed below the top 200.

The three Taiwanese universities after NTU in the top 300 were:

• National Tsinghua University (210)

• National Cheng Kung University (215)

• National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (219)

Taiwanese universities that made the top 500 included:

• National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (392)

• National Taipei University of Technology (425)

• National Taiwan Normal University (452), and 

• National Sun Yat-sen University (485) 

NTU scored high in employment outcomes (99.9), academic reputation (93.4), employer reputation (92.1), and sustainability (90), with all but sustainability improving from the previous year. The university's employment outcomes score placed 11th globally and fourth in Asia.

In terms of the nine major evaluation indicators of academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio, international students ratio, international research network, employment outcomes, and sustainability, NTU ranked first in Taiwan for six of them.

In Asia, NTU dropped two spots from 17th to 19th. It trailed five universities from China, five from Hong Kong, four from South Korea, two from Singapore, two from Japan, and one from Malaysia. The Asian universities were led by the National University of Singapore (NUS), which ranked eighth overall.

Following NUS, the top Asian universities were ranked as follows:

• Peking University (14)
• Nanyang Technical University, Singapore (15)
• The University of Hong Kong (17)
• Tsinghua University (20)
• Seoul National University (31) 
• University of Tokyo (32) 
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong (36)
• Fudan University (39)
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (45)
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Zhejiang University tied for 47th
• Kyoto University (50)
• Yonsei University (56)
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (53)
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (57)
• Universiti Malaya (60)
• City University of Hong Kong (62)
• Korea University (67)

QS analysis showed that Taiwan's universities perform better in employability-related indicators, with three universities entering the top 100 in the world in "employer reputation" and two in “employment outcomes.”

However, overall, in the "employment outcomes" indicator, 85% of Taiwan's universities and colleges included in the rankings have declined in ranking compared with last year, while only 15% ranked higher. In the "employer reputation" indicator, the average score of Taiwan's universities is still higher than the world average.

Excluding employment-related indicators, QS pointed out that in all other indicators, Taiwan’s universities and colleges scored lower than the world average.

QS's 2025 World University Rankings include approximately 1,500 universities from 105 higher education systems. For the 13th straight year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked first in the world, followed by:

• Imperial College of London
• University of Oxford
• Harvard University
• University of Cambridge
• Stanford University
• ETH Zurich
• NUS
• UCL
• California Institute of Technology