Rankings
Tsinghua University has been constantly placed as one of the top two universities in mainland China by most domestic and international rankings, along with Peking University.
Nationally, it had been continuously ranked to be the best in mainland by the Chinese university ranking from 2003 to 2010 and has become the second since then. The Netbig had also regarded it to be the best in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and it was placed at 2nd by the China's Education Center in the same consecutive years.
Internationally, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed it at 52nd in 2012-13 when its World Reputation Rankings considered it 35th. The QS World University Rankings (2012/13) ranked it at 48th worldwide and the independent regional QS Asian University Rankings (2013) regarded it as 14th. Further, ARWU (2012) put it to be among 151st-200th in the world and 1st-4th in mainland China.
In addition, it was at 31st on the list the Times Higher Education rankings by subjects for Engineering and Technology.
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