{"id":61959,"date":"2018-10-24T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=61959"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:02:16","slug":"waseda-emerges-as-top-private-university-in-qs-japan-university-rankings-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/61959","title":{"rendered":"Waseda emerges as top private university in QS Japan University Rankings 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 23, QS World University Rankings announced for the first time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/university-rankings\/rankings-by-location\/japan\/2019\">QS Japan University Rankings 2019<\/a>, a separate rankings tables that evaluate Japanese universities. Waseda University is placed 9<sup>th<\/sup> overall but claimed 1<sup>st<\/sup> position among private Japanese universities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61960\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/university-rankings\/rankings-by-location\/japan\/2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44708860_2148544761836064_4915202900445102080_n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44708860_2148544761836064_4915202900445102080_n.png 506w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44708860_2148544761836064_4915202900445102080_n-290x290.png 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: QS World University Rankings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the rankings, Waseda came in 1<sup>st<\/sup> place among all private universities in both academic and employer reputations (ranked 7<sup>th<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> overall respectively), suggesting that the scholars at and graduates of Waseda are highly regarded in Japan. In addition, Waseda also received an extremely high evaluation in the rankings indicator for international student ratio, beating all public universities.<\/p>\n<p>The University will continue to make necessary changes and improvement to its organization and curricula to fulfill its commitment as a leading Asian university both in research and education.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Japan&#039;s Top 10 Universities 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9uGzG3IlpE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 23, QS World University Rankings announced for the first time, the QS Japan University Rankings 201 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-61959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-data-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61972,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61959\/revisions\/61972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}