Location: Hong Kong
Like Singapore, Hong Kong is small in size (officially a Special Administrative Region of China), yet a big player on the Asian higher education scene. It claims four representatives among the 10 top universities in Asia alone, led by the University of Hong Kong (HKU), which climbs one place in the ranking this year. Founded in 1911, HKU is currently 28th in the overall world rankings, and caters to almost 28,000 students, of which 11,000 are postgraduates. The main language of instruction is English.
The University of Hong Kong is ranked internationally for 33 subjects, placing within the world’s top 50 for 26 academic disciplines. It comes second in the world for dentistry, sixth for education & training and ninth for both linguistics and civil & structural engineering.