Two UAE Universities Ranked Among Asia’s Top 50 Universities

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Two UAE universities have positioned among the best 50 in Asia out of the blue, as per the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2019.

The rankings, discharged on Wednesday, set four of the nation's universities in its rundown of the best 417 organizations over the area.

Khalifa University, which was at that point in the main 50, remained the Emirates' top-positioned establishment, rising four spots to position 28.

UAE University bounced from 71 to 49, giving the nation two top 50 sections for the first time. However, the nation still has space to improve, say specialists.

“The data shows that all four institutions in the UAE have slightly lower scores for international outlook this year,” said Ellie Bothwell, the Times Higher Education rankings editor. “However, the country performs exceptionally well on this measure, so this is not a big concern.

“In general, universities in the UAE should concentrate on improving their teaching and research environments, both of which tend to be their weakest areas.”

UAEU improved its score through better references in the scholarly papers wrote by the establishment's specialists, though Khalifa scored better this year on instructing condition.

The American University of Sharjah dropped from 167 to being in the 201 to 250 gathering, which fell in the 2018 Times Higher Education worldwide evaluation. It has enhanced a considerable lot of the measurements, yet there was a quicker improvement in different foundations.

The University of Sharjah kept up its situation in a similar gathering.

Mohamed Albaili, the bad habit chancellor of UAEU, said the university's positioning was a stage towards its objective of breaking into the main 20 in Asia.

“[This] is an attestation that the university is enhancing its regional and global reputation by conducting cutting-edge research in areas of strategic difference to the region and the world,” he said.

The territorial rundown of 27 nations is added with other local records to order the Times Higher Education worldwide rankings.

Universities that don't show college students or created under 1,000 articles somewhere in the range of 2013 and 2017 are prohibited from thought. Universities can likewise be barred if 80 percent or a greater amount of their exploration is only in one of 11 branches of knowledge.

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