QS Asia 2027: UGM tops Indonesia, Hong Kong leads top 10
New: Hong Kong places five universities in the top 10, while mainland China has 448 universities on the list.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds released the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027, which includes 1,722 universities from 26 higher education systems. University of Hong Kong held first place, followed by Peking University and Tsinghua University. Hong Kong dominated the top 10 with five universities, including City University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong. In Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada ranked 53rd in Asia and became the country’s top university for the first time since 2021. This year’s list also showed mainland China as the largest system with 448 universities, up 53 from the previous edition. Meanwhile, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University fell to sixth and eighth place.