NUS, NTU, among top 20 on QS list of best world universities

SMU made its debut in the rankings this year.

Singapore is the only Asian nation which made the top 20 list in the latest World University Ranking.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) kept their 12th and 13th positions, respectively, in the 2016 edition of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking.

NUS moved up last year from 22nd while NTU climbed up the latter from 39th.

Singapore Management University made its debut in the rankings this year in the 431-440 band.

The Top 11 universities in the world are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, University College London, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, University of Chicago, Princeton University.