The world university rating agency, Times Higher Education (THE), has just announced that the University of Indonesia (UI) has again won the best university in Indonesia.

THE announced that UI was ranked 1 among 18 universities in Indonesia that participated in the ranking of THE Asia University Rankings 2023.

UI also received a 2023 The Asia Awards nomination for the Workplace of the Year category.

UI is among the 251-300 best universities out of a total of 669 universities from 31 regions in Asia. In addition, UI together with the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University are ranked the top 25 best universities in Southeast Asia.

"We appreciate all the academic UI community who have contributed to efforts to eradicate education. UI certainly continues to improve its performance, because our target is to be the best in Southeast Asia," said UI Chancellor Ari Kuncoro at the UI Depok Campus, Saturday, quoted from ANTARA. June 24.

To achieve this achievement, he said, serious efforts and support from all academic community, enthusiasm to collaborate with partners at the national and global levels, as well as make various breakthroughs.

Head of the Bureau of Transformation, Risk Management, and Evaluation Monitoring (TREM) which was also present at The Asia Summit event in Hong Kong, Badminton Juwono, conveyed the achievement of UI with two consecutive years of being nominated for the Asia Awards and maintaining the number 1 position in Indonesia for THE Asia Rankings.

"This shows that UI is constantly carrying out transformations to survive in the midst of this increasingly stringent Asian level university competition," he said.

THE Asia University Rankings 2023 uses the same 13 performance indicators as THE World University Rankings, but it is still adjusted to reflect the attributes of institutions in Asia. The five main indicators seen in this ranking are Teaching, Research, Citations, International Outlook, and Industry Income.

When compared to last year, UI experienced an overall score increase (overall) and was superior to the indicators of Teaching, Citations, and International Outlook.

For the Teaching and International Outlook indicators, UI is the best of all universities in Indonesia.

This year is the 11th edition of the implementation of THE Asia University Rankings. The number of participants increased when compared to last year, namely 616 universities. A total of 33 countries participated in this event with the most universities from Japan (117), China (95), India (75), Iran (65), and Turkey (61).

Of the total 669 universities that participated in this ranking, the five best universities according to The Asia University Rankings 2023 were occupied by Tsinghua University, Peking University, National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.


The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)