SOUTHERN University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) maintained its position as the best young university on the Chinese mainland, according to Young University Rankings by Times Higher Education (THE) recently.

It entered the top 50 young universities in the world for the first time, taking 47th place in the annual THE Young University Rankings that have been conducted for nine years.

The ranking lists universities that are 50 years old or younger. The 2020 ranking includes 414 universities from 66 countries and regions.

A total of 28 universities from China, six from the mainland, 16 from Taiwan, four from Hong Kong and two from Macao, are on the list.

SUSTech took the leading places in all five performance indicators among the mainland young universities including teaching (30 percent), research (30 percent), citations (30 percent), international outlook (7.5 percent) and industry income (2.5 percent).

It is noteworthy that the indicators in growth in industry income had seen an 88-percent increase compared with last year.

In the 2021 World University Rankings released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) recently, SUSTech took 14th place among the mainland universities and 323rd among world universities.

Shenzhen University took second place in both THE Young University Rankings and QS Top 50 Under 50 among universities on the mainland released recently.

A total of 13 Chinese universities were among the QS Top 50 Under 50.

The QS Top 50 Under 50 evaluate young universities from six aspects: academic reputation (40 percent), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty-student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), ratio of international faculty (5 percent) and ratio of international students (5 percent). (Han Ximin)