2023 Volume 45 Issue 2 Pages 133-138
Recently, due to the influence of the World University Rankings, research universities around the world are being evaluated based on uniform standards and are becoming more hierarchical. However, through research based on education and research experiences in emerging Asian countries, the authors have become uncomfortable with the idea of using uniform standards to evaluate research universities in emerging Asian countries and Western countries. Therefore, this study explores the image of research universities in emerging Asian countries, focusing on China, Singapore, and Indonesia.
As noted in previous studies, research universities in Western countries have academic autonomy, and most of them are public universities. However, Chinaʼs National Research University, which is required to offer courses in ideology and politics, and the National University of Singapore, which was forced to discontinue Yale-NUS College due to friction with Singapore government authorities, are the best examples of National policy universities; but it is questionable whether they uphold academic autonomy. In addition, if a university improves its world ranking by attracting excellent researchers based on the funding provided and number of articles published on Scopus, which has been done by some private Indonesian universities, it may be regarded as a research university. Thus, private research universities may increase in emerging Asian countries in the future.
