China's universities climb ranking in Times global survey

Chinese institutions moved up in the latest ranking of the world's best universities, with Tsinghua University securing joint 20th place to become the first from Asia to break into the top 20 under the current system adopted in 2011.Japan, meanwhile, has only two institutions in the top 200 of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, with the University of Tokyo remaining the country's highest-rated in joint 36th place, unchanged from last year.Kyoto University ranked 54th place, up 11 positions from last year.China doubled the number of entries in the top 100 places to six fro…READ FULL ARTICLE