Asian Universities Ranked For Technology, Innovation

Reuters has published its ranking of the 2017 Asia Pacific's Most Innovative Universities listing 75 schools for technology and intellectual property. The ranking placed 19 Japanese universities, including Tokyo University, Tohoku University, Kyoto University, and Osaka University, but South Korean institutions dominated the top 5, with KAIST (formerly Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) at the top for numerous patent applications, cited articles, and innovations like those in robotics.

A few Japanese schools dropped in ranking or off of the list and Chinese and other ones rose and entered it. Countries like New Zealand, India, and Singapore were represented though sparsely, and no Indonesian institution ranked.