港大事隔15年重返QS亞洲大學排名第一 中大城大並列第七

猴子爸

KikiDaddy 發表於 25-11-6 11:38
National Taiwan University

AI:
National Taiwan University's (NTU) relative drop from leading positions in Asia is due to intensified competition from other universities and changes in national funding policies that have shifted support away from the top institutions. In the 1990s, NTU was a leader, but as other Asian universities, particularly those in China, received massive government investment in the 2000s, they began to catch up and surpass NTU in rankings. Additionally, internal issues like funding shifts, overstretched faculty, and enrollment changes have also contributed to NTU's decline.

Funding is almost always the most important factor that determines the development of a university.


Contrary to Taiwan, HK Govt will definitely continue to boost the performance of HK's universities and make sure that they will continue to rank high in the top 100 in the world and top 10 in Asia, with the purpose of making hk into an int'l education hub.

KikiDaddy

猴子爸 發表於 25-11-6 11:56
AI:
National Taiwan University's (NTU) relative drop from leading positions in Asia is due to intens ...

Substantial portions of the running costs of a university are actually fixed costs like the depreciation of the campus facilities as well as the related operation and maintenance costs. The incremental costs for supporting the increase in non local students are mainly the payroll costs for additional teaching staff. Hence, most of the $200K tuition fees for a non local student are in fact the profit to the universitiy.
The number of non local students have been increasing in the past few years but the government has not increased the allocation of its education funding to university education (from primary and secondary education).

From UGC statistics: -

https://cdcf.ugc.edu.hk/stat/index.html#/topic/grants

猴子爸

KikiDaddy 發表於 25-11-6 12:38
Substantial portions of the running costs of a university are actually fixed costs like the deprecia ...

I thought what matters most for the rise in ranking is the quality and quantity of research.   Has research funding been increased by the government? I'm not sure.
With the influx of non local students who pay full tuition fees, universities in HK are grabbing this economic opportunity and thriving on this income stream.  And yes, it also helps push the ranking higher on QS.