BRICS Plus Rankings: Strong Showing by Turkey, China and Taiwan

Times Higher Education (THE) has released its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and Emerging Economies Rankings. Emerging economies are defined by the FTSE and include Turkey, Taiwan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Chile, Thailand, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Malaysia.
The top five are:

1. Peking University
2. Tsinghua University
3. Middle East Technical University
4. University of Cape Town     
5.  Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Peking and Tsinghua Universities retain the first and second positions that they won in 2013. The Middle East Technical University in Ankara has risen from ninth place and Lomonosov Moscow State University from tenth.
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