The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as China, India, Singapore, and more, and identified these to be the top universities in Asia.
The ranking uses 6 separate indicators: Asian Academic Reputation, Asian Employer Review, Faculty-Student Ratio, International Faculty, International Students, Citations per Paper. USTC have high score in 1, 2 and 6 indicators and very low score in the 4 and 5 indicator in comparison.
Other Chinese Mainland Universities in the list are: Peking University was ranked 13th, Tsinghua University 16th, Fudan University 21st, Zhejiang University 27th, Nanjing University 29th, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) 33rd, Beijing Normal University 64th, Tongji University 67th, Xi'an Jiaotong University 72nd, Nankai University 73rd, Tianjin University 74th, Sun Yat-sen University 85th, Shandong University 96th.
(News Center of USTC)