Four Indonesian Universities Make Asia's Top 100 List

Friday, 23 July 2010

The Jakarta Globe

Four Indonesian universities have been ranked in a list of Asia’s top 100 colleges compiled by a Spanish public research body using Internet data.

The “Webometrics Ranking of World Universities,” an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (High Council of Scientific Investigation), ranked the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 56th place, Yogyakarta’s Gadjah Mada University (UGM), 61, the University of Indonesia, 84, and Gunadarma University, 88.

“University activity is multi-dimensional and this is reflected in its Web presence,” Webometrics said on their Web site. “So the best way to build the ranking is combining a group of indicators that measures these different aspects.”

Webometrics used four indicators in arriving at its conclusions, including the number of files that were able to be recovered using four search engines, and the results of searches for the publication of academic and research papers, among other things.

The body also ranked Indonesia’s top 10 universities using the same measures:

1. Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
2. Gadjah Mada University (UGM)
3. University of Indonesia (UI)
4. Gunadarma University
5. Petra Christian University
6. Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB)
7. Sepuluh November Institute of Technology (ITS)
8. Airlangga University (UNAIR)
9. Diponegoro University (UNDIP)
10. Sebelas Maret University (UNS)

The world’s top ten universities are dominated by the United States, with Harvard as the reigning champion.