According to the Times Higher Education Asia Rankings, China led the way with Tsinghua University in first place and Peking University in second, followed by the National University of Singapore. The University of Tokyo was ranked the highest Japanese university and came seventh, up one notch from a year earlier.

Asian universities are expected to rise in international rankings as promising students enroll in their respective countries rather than studying abroad amid the spread of the novel coronavirus, the report said.

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The University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.

The universities in the survey, located across Asia and the Middle East, are judged according to 13 criteria including teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook in terms of staff, students and research.

Fourteen Japanese universities were ranked in the survey, including Kyoto University in 12th place, Tohoku University in 30th, Nagoya University in 41st and the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 42nd place.

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