Singapore’s higher education system has emerged top in Asia, according to London headquartered higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
A total of 14 university departments has been ranked in the global top 10 list for their respective fields, Singapore’s digital news provider Todayoneline said in a report. Nine of them are from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and five are from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
NUS Civil and Structural Engineering department rose from the sixth position to clinch the second spot in the global QS ranking of varsity departments. It has overtaken the University of Cambridge and the University of California at Berkeley. This is the highest rank achieved by a local university in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, Todayonline reported. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranked top for the subject.
Source: Connected to India