Finance underlies some of the biggest, and oldest, fortunes, including the $8.5 billion one belonging to the nation's wealthiest, Tsai Hong-tu, the chairman of Cathay Financial Holdings, and his family. Wang, who shares her fortune with her husband, is the only woman among the 40.
1 notebook computer maker and supplier to Dell and Cher Wang, who heads mobile device maker HTC. No surprise then that 8 of these tech geeks made the top 40, including Terry Gou, whose Hon Hai Precision Industry makes Apple iPods and other gadgets Barry Lam, cofounder of Quanta, the world's No. India has the highest number of new entries (14) and as a result boasts a record number of ranked institutions (63).Most of the world best knows Taiwan for its high-tech entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, there are 141 first-time entrants in the rankings this year, topped by France’s recently merged Paris-Saclay University (joint 178 th). The US claims a record eight places in the top 10, after the University of California, Berkeley climbed six places to seventh, but US universities outside the top 200 show signs of decline. The University of Oxford tops the rankings for the fifth consecutive year, while mainland China’s Tsinghua University becomes the first Asian university to break into the top 20 under the current methodology (launched in 2011). View the World University Rankings 2021 methodology Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table provides great insight into the shifting balance of power in global higher education. This year’s ranking analysed more than 80 million citations across over 13 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.
The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021 include more than 1,500 universities across 93 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
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