SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranks the performance of 3,800 universities around the world. SKKU demonstrated a huge improvement by placing 106^th, 12 positions higher than the previous year.

Four Korean universities, Seoul National University (35^th), KAIST (46^th), POSTECH (83^th), and Korea University (98^th), made up the top 100. While SKKU (106^th), Yonsei University (112^th), and Hanyang University (171^th), were ranked within the top 200.

Universities in the USA and UK were placed mostly in the top 10. The top order is MIT (1^st), Stanford University (2^nd), Harvard (3^rd), University of Cambridge (4^th), and Caltech (5^th).