Kasetsart University has improved its place in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities by moving up to No. 161, compare to the 316th place it earned six months ago .
Associate Professor Wutthichai Kapilakarn, the Rector of Kasetsart University, revealed that among the 20,300 universities worldwide listed on January 2012’s Webometrics Universities Ranking, Kasetsart University has landed number one in Thailand, number 2 in the Southeast Asian region, number 19 in Asia, and number 161 in the world. In the previous rating conducted in July 2011, the university already earned the first and second place in Thailand and Southeast Asia respectively. In Asia, Kasetsart also did better this time, having moved up from number 40 six months ago.
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has been conducted by the Cybermetrics Lab, which is a research group belonging to the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), since 2004. The ranking, which is published twice a year, takes into account a university’s performance in the online world, and not its teaching qualities. The Webometrics Ranking encourages the web publications of all universities across the globe via the Open Access Initiative, which is an indicator of the university’s capability to share academic knowledge to the world as well as the modernity of its information system in a globalized world.
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