Young University Rankings 2017: top 50 Generation Y universities

Asian universities make up 20 of the top 50 institutions established in the late 1980s and 1990s, while the UK and Australia dominate

April 5, 2017

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Three Asian universities top a Times Higher Education table of the best universities founded in the late 1980s and 1990s.

The list of the best ��Generation Y�� universities (established between 1986 and 1999), a subset of the 2017 ɫ��ֱ�� Young University Rankings, is topped by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Nanyang Technological University and Pohang University of Science and Technology.

Overall, 20 Asian universities make the top 50 list, including universities in India, Taiwan, Pakistan, Thailand and Turkey.

But, the UK and Australia dominate the Generation Y table, with 17 and 16 representatives respectively, which is unsurprising given that these two nations are the most-represented countries in the Young University Rankings.

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Both countries underwent higher education expansion during the late 1980s and 1990s when technical colleges and colleges of advanced education in Australia were absorbed into existing universities and polytechnics in the UK were given university status.

Generation Y universities generally perform poorly when it comes to their teaching and research environments, compared with other age groups in the young ranking; they are particularly held back in terms of academic reputation, with a lower median score for teaching and research prestige than the group of institutions founded from 2000 to the present.

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But Generation Y institutions excel when it comes to internationalisation, with the highest average proportion of international students when compared with the ��Generation X�� and ��Millennial�� groups, as well the cohort of institutions founded in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

?Top 50 Generation Y universities

Generation Y Rank	2017 Young University Rank	2016 Young University Rank	World University Rank 2016-17	Institution	Country	Year founded	Teaching	Research	Citations	Industry income	International outlook	Overall score
1	2	3	49	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	1991	56.0	76.9	91.2	62.0	82.8	75.0
2	3	2	54	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	1991	54.4	70.5	90.7	93.5	95.7	74.2
3	4	5	=104	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea	1986	65.8	64.3	79.2	99.6	34.2	67.8
4	=9	10	=190	Scuola Superiore Sant��Anna	Italy	1987	58.3	48.9	74.1	86.6	44.9	59.9
5	15	21	201-250	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia	1988	33.6	56.3	73.8	44.2	92.3	57.1
6	17	15	175	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain	1990	34.5	42.4	93.1	40.5	65.1	56.9
7	20	27	=192	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	1994	39.2	52.4	69.9	47.9	79.7	55.6
8	24	=28	201-250	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	1989	34.4	51.8	67.4	58.9	77.9	53.4
9	26	33	301-350	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	1993	51.1	57.8	51.9	44.9	35.2	52.0
10	32	57	251-300	University of South Australia	Australia	1991	38.6	43.3	58.4	82.9	90.1	50.9
11	34	=31	251-300	Charles Darwin University	Australia	1989	24.5	28.4	91.7	44.3	77.2	50.3
12	=36	36	251-300	Ko? University	Turkey	1993	31.7	42.7	70.3	81.9	54.4	49.5
13	39	�C	301-350	Central European University	Hungary	1991	50.5	37.2	48.8	32.2	97.0	49.0
14	42	�C	251-300	Free University of Bozen-Bolzano	Italy	1997	30.3	12.1	96.1	32.3	79.9	48.3
15	44	=52	301-350	Sabanc? University	Turkey	1996	31.9	48.4	61.6	77.7	46.7	48.0
16	49	68	351-400	Maynooth University	Republic of Ireland	1997	33.4	35.8	61.0	37.5	77.6	45.8
17	=52	=55	351-400	University of Cyprus	Cyprus	1989	25.0	37.1	66.6	34.7	75.0	45.1
18	55	51	351-400	University of Milan-Bicocca	Italy	1998	32.3	32.3	70.8	43.9	42.2	44.9
19	=56	�C	351-400	Victoria University	Australia	1990	29.0	32.1	66.9	37.2	70.8	44.6
20	61	74	351-400	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	1992	29.5	35.1	60.3	35.5	74.5	44.0
21	65	=59	351-400	Plymouth University	United Kingdom	1992	24.9	27.7	71.9	32.5	66.6	43.1
=22	=74	79	401-500	Dublin City University	Republic of Ireland	1989	34.6	38.0	42.7	46.7	78.6	41.7
=22	=74	�C	�C	VelTech University	India	1997	22.1	10.1	100.0	35.4	15.5	41.7
=24	=76	=63	351-400	?rebro University	Sweden	1999	23.5	8.6	91.7	33.7	43.6	41.3
=24	=76	=83	401-500	University of Rovira i Virgili	Spain	1991	28.1	23.1	72.1	35.2	45.5	41.3
26	=79	=86	401-500	Western Sydney University	Australia	1989	22.3	34.4	57.9	35.6	77.5	41.1
27	=81	72	401-500	University of Rome III	Italy	1992	29.2	27.5	67.5	37.6	37.2	41.0
28	84	=92	401-500	Curtin University	Australia	1987	25.6	31.3	52.1	39.5	93.8	40.7
29	87	98	401-500	RMIT University	Australia	1992	27.3	27.4	53.6	40.0	85.6	39.9
30	91	101-150	401-500	University of Canberra	Australia	1990	25.6	35.6	50.8	35.0	60.1	39.0
31	96	�C	401-500	Higher School of Economics	Russian Federation	1992	34.6	33.0	46.6	40.3	32.2	37.7
=32	=98	�C	401-500	At?l?m University	Turkey	1996	25.3	12.1	75.3	47.9	33.3	37.5
=32	=98	99	401-500	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom	1992	21.3	18.5	61.8	32.6	82.4	37.5
=34	101-150	�C	601-800	Australian Catholic University	Australia	1991	18.9	25.3	44.2	35.4	40.3	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	�C	501-600	Bond University	Australia	1989	24.5	31.0	37.1	36.3	89.5	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	601-800	Bournemouth University	United Kingdom	1992	21.7	21.6	32.4	32.4	72.7	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	601-800	Chang Gung University	Taiwan	1987	26.8	36.1	30.3	36.4	17.1	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	601-800	De Montfort University	United Kingdom	1992	21.3	18.1	37.7	32.8	62.1	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	501-600	Edith Cowan University	Australia	1991	23.3	28.1	45.7	36.5	68.5	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	�C	601-800	Glasgow Caledonian University	United Kingdom	1993	23.5	15.7	38.8	33.2	59.3	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	501-600	University of Hertfordshire	United Kingdom	1992	20.8	16.6	56.2	33.0	77.5	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	601-800	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	India	1994	34.3	23.3	42.1	35.4	14.6	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	501-600	Liverpool John Moores University	United Kingdom	1992	20.8	19.0	56.7	32.7	65.0	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	501-600	Middlesex University	United Kingdom	1992	24.0	19.5	39.5	32.2	84.9	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	501-600	Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg	Germany	1993	29.8	19.8	40.3	41.1	49.3	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	101-150	401-500	Oxford Brookes University	United Kingdom	1992	29.1	28.6	37.8	32.3	71.5	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	94	501-600	Southern Cross University	Australia	1994	22.5	34.7	47.1	38.6	52.6	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	�C	501-600	University of the Sunshine Coast	Australia	1996	20.1	26.5	47.1	33.5	60.0	28.5-37.0
=34	101-150	�C	601-800	Tezpur University	India	1994	29.7	21.3	39.8	32.2	12.3	28.5-37.0
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of A Coru?a	Spain	1989	23.3	16.1	23.7	35.5	27.3	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	American University of Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	1997	21.2	18.1	13.6	33.2	95.3	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of Bedfordshire	United Kingdom	1993	19.8	14.6	22.6	32.8	73.1	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	101-150	601-800	Carlos III University of Madrid	Spain	1989	29.6	19.1	29.6	37.2	53.1	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	COMSATS Institute of Information Technology	Pakistan	1998	22.0	10.4	45.2	32.1	43.5	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Coventry University	United Kingdom	1992	21.8	13.4	27.7	32.6	76.1	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Dublin Institute of Technology	Republic of Ireland	1992	19.8	15.1	27.7	32.1	72.6	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of East London	United Kingdom	1992	24.4	18.5	11.7	32.2	76.7	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of Huddersfield	United Kingdom	1992	23.6	18.0	24.5	32.9	63.6	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of Ja��n	Spain	1993	18.0	16.2	50.1	34.2	25.9	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Jordan University of Science and Technology	Jordan	1986	13.4	11.1	50.2	33.2	62.4	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	King Juan Carlos University	Spain	1996	19.5	14.0	35.3	35.0	39.2	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	101-150	601-800	Kingston University	United Kingdom	1992	21.2	19.6	27.5	32.7	79.7	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	101-150	601-800	National University of Sciences and Technology	Pakistan	1991	26.3	11.9	36.2	32.6	35.2	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	National Chung Cheng University	Taiwan	1989	25.4	31.9	17.5	39.7	18.5	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Nottingham Trent University	United Kingdom	1992	20.5	15.3	32.2	32.3	55.3	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of Southern Queensland	Australia	1992	28.3	21.1	20.7	32.7	67.7	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Sultan Qaboos University	Oman	1986	30.8	14.0	17.0	40.9	70.3	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Suranaree University of Technology	Thailand	1990	27.4	16.1	22.4	33.6	31.5	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	Universiti Teknologi Petronas	Malaysia	1997	33.3	25.2	10.3	65.5	64.4	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	101-150	601-800	University of Vigo	Spain	1989	20.4	16.6	33.2	37.0	36.5	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	101-150	601-800	University of the West of England	United Kingdom	1992	20.5	19.5	38.3	32.9	53.3	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	�C	601-800	University of Westminster	United Kingdom	1992	19.6	19.0	22.2	32.4	81.0	21.9-28.4
=50	151-200	101-150	601-800	Yuan Ze University	Taiwan	1989	22.4	20.6	25.3	45.7	20.9	21.9-28.4