Joshua Mok Ka-Ho, vice-president and chair professor of comparative policy at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University, adds that Asia’s performance reflects heavy higher education investments from many governments in the continent and universities concentrating funding on strengthening their research capabilities and publishing in international journals.
Phil Baty added: “The rise of Asia has become something of a cliché in recent times – but our evidence, from six massive global surveys over six years, including the views of more than 80,000 scholars, proves that the balance of power in higher education and research, is slowly shifting from the West to the East.”
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD REPUTATION RANKINGS 2016 – WORLD TOP 11-30
| Rank 2016 | Rank 2015 | Institution | Country |
| 11 | 11 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 12 | 12 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 13 | 13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 14 | 19 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 15 | 14 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 16 | 23 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 17 | =20 | Cornell University | United States |
| 18 | 26 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 19 | 15 | ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 20 | 17 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 21 | 32 | Peking University | China |
| 22 | 18 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 23 | 16 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 24 | 22 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
| 25 | =20 | New York University | United States |
| 26 | 24 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 27 | 27 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 28 | 34 | Duke University | United States |
| 29 | 33 | University of Washington | United States |
| =30 | 30 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
