Rank of Universities by Webometrics

There are several international institutions which conduct research on universities’ profiles in the world and do the yearly rank after that. Shanghai Jiao Tong University ( Shanghai,China ), Times Higher Education Supplement ( THES ) which is a part of The Times,a newspaper from United Kingdom and the new one,Webometrics affiliated to Spanish Research Council.

Webometrics ( www.webometrics.info ) classify the rank mainly based on the electronics publication ( e-publication ) which contained in each university’s website. There are further 4 indicators for it such as

1. Size : number of website pages which contain e-publication
2. Visibility : number of other pages which referred or put link onto the original website
3. Rich File : the relevance of the electronic sources for the academic and publication of the university
4. Scholar : number of qualified publication and citation in the university website.

Later on it process the data and then put rank for total 3000 universities worldwide. The rank come out each January and July each year since 2004.

Though the ranking from each international institution can be not believed 100% as it is merely result of collected statistics which we know can be played around and the different criterions set by the international institutions and the universities being researched but surely we still can use it for quick glance and overview on how competitive universities which we belong to or our home country universities

Let see the list of top 100 universities in Asia as follow :

1. National University of Singapore ( Singapore )

2. National Taiwan University ( Taiwan )

3. Keio University ( Japan )

4. University of Tokyo ( Japan )

5. Beijing University ( China )

6. Chinese University of Hongkong ( Hongkong )

7. University of Hongkong ( Hongkong )

8. Kyoto University ( Japan )

9. National Chiao Tung University ( Taiwan 0

10.Tsinghua University China ( China )
……..

73. Bandung Institute of Technology ( ITB,Indonesia )

100.Gadjah Mada University ( UGM,Indonesia )

First I am personally happy with this rank as the universities where I studied for my bachelor degree ( UGM,Indonesia ) and my master degree ( NUS,Singapore ) are in the top 100 Universities in Asia. NUS is no.1 and UGM is no.100.

I am also happy because two Indonesian top universities ( ITB and UGM ) manage to share the spot in top 100 universities in Asia which is a big push and pride for Indonesia which this several years facing so many problems and degradations. Despites lack of fund ( compared with other universities ) ITB and UGM still managed also to push higher quality and bigger presence in international spot ( aimed in Asia first ).

If we see the above top 10 also we can see that the spots mostly being taken by universities from East Asia ( Japan,China,Taiwan,Hongkong ). The strength of universities in this area long has been recognized even in other type of ranks from THES and Shanghai Jiao Tong. Is it the high quality education which propel and help the economics growth and industrialization for years ? Or is it because hard work ethics ( Confucian work ethics ) complemented together with big support from local government ? Or simply because the people from East Asia are smarter ? I can not give a definite answer for this.

Just to close this small article that I personally hope more Indonesian universities able to surface into top spot in the Asia first before aimed for the top world position.If this year only 2 universities then probably next year can be 3-4 universities in top 100 Asia Universities. I believe that if more Indonesian Universities can surface and get better recognition from the world then it can help the alumni finding global and best jobs,help Indonesia also with higher quality graduates and education and etc. Hopefully it can come true soon.