Top Universities for Library & Information Management in 2018

Over half of the European universities included in this year’s ranking are based in the UK (seven of 13), with UCL (University College London) the next best-performing outside of the two universities in the top 10. The London-based institution is ranked 32^nd in the world.

No other European country features more than once in the ranking. Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain are the six countries to be represented, with Spain’s Universidad Carlos III de Madrid the best-performing university from these countries with a ranking of 22^nd. The University of Amsterdam is the only other one to feature in the top 30.

RMIT University is one of three universities from Australia and New Zealand to be ranked for library & information management this year, placing an extremely respectable 20^th. The other Australian university to be included is Monash University, which is ranked joint 43^rd (tied with China’s Fudan University and the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde in the UK).

The sole New Zealand university to be featured is the Victoria University of Wellington, which is ranked 40^th.

China and Taiwan both boast three universities in this inaugural ranking, although only one of these – National Taiwan University (NTU) – is in the top half of the ranking. Peking University is the highest-placed Chinese university in 30^th place.

Japan and South Korea are the next most-represented countries with two universities apiece making the cut. Both the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba are placed higher than their South Korean counterparts. The Japanese institutions are ranked 23^rd and 37^th respectively, while South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and Seoul National University (SNU) are outside the top 40.

The final two countries to be featured in this year’s ranking are Malaysia and Singapore. Universiti Malaya (UM) is ranked 24^th in the world, while Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a very respectable 18^th. This makes NTU the highest-ranked institution to come from outside the US, the UK or Canada.