Mahidol U named top in medical science category

Overall, MU was the 257th-ranked university in the world and Asia’s 49th, according to British publisher Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
It was No 117 in the world for science and medicine.
MU vice president Surakit Nathi-suwan said the rankings reflected the university’s quality, especially in the biological and medical-science field, which had long been MU’s strong point. “This also shows that a Thai university is able to compete on the world stage,” he said.
He urged parents to have faith in Thai learning institutions, despite the bad press Thai education received, because many universities were determined to improve the country’s education.
Chulalongkorn University remain-ed Thailand’s top university for the eighth year in a row after being ranked No 243 in the world. The rankings began in 2007.
In Asia, CU was ranked 45th, Chiang Mai University 104th, Kasetsart University 135th and Thammasat University 150th.
The world’s top five-ranked universities in order are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Harvard University and the University of Oxford.
QS considered six aspects when formulating the rankings – academic reputation, graduates’ employer reputation, the ratio of lecturers to students, academic citations in the past five years, the ratio of foreign lecturers, and the ratio of international students.