2008 Academic Ranking of S.Korea Universities(SJTU)

National Rank / Asia Rank / World Rank / University


1 = 17~22 = 152~200
= SEOUL National Univ

2~3 = 23~41 = 201~302
= Korea Advanced Inst of Sci & Tech / YONSEI Univ

4~7 = 42~68 = 303~401
= HANYANG Univ / KOREA Univ / Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech
/ Sungkyunkwan Univ

8 = 69~100 = 402~503
= Pusan National Univ


* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.





Shanghai Jiao Tong University published its Top 100 Asia Pacific Pacific Universities 2008.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10 percent), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20 percent), “highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories” (20 percent), articles published in Nature and Science (20 percent), the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (20 percent) and the per capita academic performance (on the indicators above) of an institution (10 percent). The results have been cited by The Economist magazine.