Education in Tokyo

The capital of Japan, Tokyo is home to many public and private universities.

Ranking

Various groups rank colleges and universities worldwide. See College and university rankings.

The EMP Professional Ranking of World Universities lists Keio first among the private universities located in Tokyo. Waseda follows with a rank of 15. Chuo University is next at 18.

According to Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong, the top-ranked private universities in Tokyo are Keio (ranked in the 25–42 group), Waseda (ranked in the 43–64 group), Juntendo (in the 65–100 group), and Nihon (also ranked in the 65–100 group).

Webometrics ranks Keio at fifth in Asia. Following it are Waseda at 45, Hosei at 65, Nihon at 66, Meiji at 92, and Sophia at 100.

The Wuhan University rankings place Keio at 254th worldwide. Ranked 415th, Waseda is next, and Nihon came in at 448.

QS Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007 puts Keio in 161st place and Waseda in 180th. Showa at 318 and Tokyo University of Science at 364 follow.

See also

• Education in Japan

References

• The EMP Professional Ranking of World Universities (retrieved December 16, 2007)
• Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong (retrieved December 16, 2007)
• Webometrics (retrieved December 16, 2007)
• QS Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007 (retrieved December 16, 2007)

Further reading

• College Quality and Earnings in the Japanese Labor Market. Hiroshi Ono. SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No 395 (Revised March 11, 2003).
• Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organizations. Hiroshi Ishida, Seymour Spilerman & Kuo-Hsien Su. American Sociological Review, Vol 62, No 6 (Dec., 1997), pp. 866-882.
• "Gakureki shakai kasetsu no kento" (Examining the educational credentialism hypothesis). Bunshiro Ando. In Kenichi Tominaga, ed., Nihon no Kaiso Kozo (1994) University of Tokyo Press, pp. 275-292.
• A Review of Higher Education Reform in Modern Japan. Paul Doyon. Higher Education, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2001), pp. 443-470.
• Japan's Top 30 Universities. William Currie. International Higher Education, Winter 2002 [1]
• Engineering Tasks for the New Century: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives (1999) Office of International Affairs [2]
• www.yozemi.ac.jp/rank/gakubu/
• www.toshin.com/daigakuranking/