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NEW Ajou University, Ranked 9th among Korean Universities for 2 years by THE World University Rankings 2025

  • 2024-11-12
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Our university ranked 9th among Korean universities in the "2025 THE WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS", maintaining the 501-600th rank following last year.


The World University Rankings, published annually by Times Higher Education, a British university evaluation agency, is known to focus on research and educational conditions rather than school reputation, and evaluates university performance in five areas and 18 detailed indicators using papers, citations, and surveys by professors. The 2025 rankings was attended by 2,092 universities from 115 countries.


In our university, the score increased in three out of five evaluation items. The score increased from 37.7 to 38.7 in the research environment, from 52.8 to 53.9 in research quality, and from 92.3 to 94.2 in industry-academia cooperation. Education maintained a score of 35.6, and internationalization fell 0.2 points, but the impact on the ranking was minimal.


Since the 2018 ranking, it has maintained an upward trend in the ranking, receiving higher scores than the previous year. In particular, in last year's evaluation, it entered the top 500 for the first time, with an increase of 18 points in industry-academic cooperation and more than 11 points in the research environment, and this year, it has risen slightly and maintained a stable top 500. This year, it recorded the highest score among the top 500 domestic universities, and it is expected to enter the top 500 in the future.


The world's No. 1 ranking is Oxford University, which has maintained its No. 1 ranking for nine years since 2017. MIT, Harvard, and Princeton University ranked second, third and fourth, while Cambridge University maintained its ranking at fifth. In Korean universities, Seoul National University, KAIST, and Yonsei University ranked first, second and third, while Sungkyunkwan University made strides, climbing more than 40 notches. Konkuk University, Kyungpook National University, and Ulsan National University are among the top 500 universities, while Sogang University, University of Seoul, and Inha University remained at 801-1000.