Trouble Ahead for Hong Kong Universities?

Recent global rankings have shown that the leading Mainland Chinese universities are catching up with or have overtaken the top Hong Kong institutions. The Shanghai rankings now put Peking and Tsinghua Universities in the 101-150 category ahead of the University of Hong Kong (UHK) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, both in the 151-200 band. Meanwhile the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings show Tsinghua in 25^th place, slightly ahead of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 28^th. According to the US News Best Global Universities, Peking is in 41st place, Tsinghua 59^th and UHK 64^th. More...