NUS ranked 18th among world's top 200 universities

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been ranked 18th among the world's top 200 tertiary institutions, in the first such ranking exercise by an British authority on higher education.

The Times Higher World University Rankings place NUS above renowned names such as Columbia (ranked 19th), Cornell (23rd) and Pennsylvania (28th) in the United States; and the University College London (34th) in the United Kingdom.