Three universities in East China’s Anhui province rank among China’s top 100 universities this year, a list released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy shows. The University of Science and Technology of China takes the 7th place, Hefei University of Technology ranks 83rd and Anhui University comes in at 95th. The list ranks 590 universities in China based on a range of indicators, with Tsinghua University, Peking University and Zhejiang University among the top three. In addition, the consultancy also unveiled rankings of non-comprehensive universities in terms of academic disciplines. Anhui Medical University ranks 16th among medical universities around the country, and Anhui University of Finance and Economics occupies the 17th among China’s finance and economics universities. The province has stepped up efforts to boost the development of higher education in recent years. It will improve the structure of its higher education system, increase the innovative capacity of universities, and focus on developing eight universities into characteristic and high-level ones and making some disciplines competitive, according to the province’s educational plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) released in February.
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