Education | MUST ranked the best university in Macau

Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) ranks at position 32 in the ranking of top universities in Greater China of 2016, according to the latest ranking listed by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).  The University of Macau (UM) sits in 45th place.
The distance between the respective positions of UM and MUST has grown from last year. In 2015, MUST ranked 46 while UM ranked 49, in what marked the first time MUST took over UM to become the best higher education institution in Macau.
However, although MUST surpassed UM to become the best in Macau, both universities’ ARWU ranking improved compared to the results attained from 2011 until 2014. During this period, UM’s ranking in ARWU was always higher than MUST’s.
According to the data provided by ARWU, in 2011, UM ranked 72, nine places ahead of MUST. In 2012, the positions then shifted to 85 and 91, concerning UM and MUST, respectively. In the next year, UM and MUST reached the positions 62 and 72, respectively. In 2014, the rankings showed UM in position 54 and MUST in position 57.
Tsinghua University from mainland China has remained the top one university across the time period discussed above. This year, the National Tsing Hua University sits at third place while the University of Hong Kong has been ranked the fifth best, each representing the best from Republic of China and Hong Kong, respectively.
ARWU was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis. Since 2009, ARWU has been published and copyrighted by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.