THE Awards Asia 2020: shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2020 Times Higher Education Awards Asia, which has twice the number of categories this year, has been announced.

More than 60 universities have made the shortlist, after more than 150 institutions from almost 30 territories submitted entries.

The THE Awards Asia launched last year to celebrate the achievements of universities across the continent, building on the success of THE’s long-running UK-focused awards, dubbed the “Oscars of higher education”.

This year’s event will honour institutions across 10 categories, up from five last year.

Universities have once again been nominated for: Outstanding Leadership and Management Team; International Strategy of the Year; Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year; Outstanding Support for Students; and Technological Innovation of the Year.

The five new categories are: Excellence and Innovation in the Arts; Student Recruitment Campaign of the Year; Workplace of the Year; and two based on data submitted by Asian institutions for THE’s rankings: Regional or Societal Impact Award, and THE DataPoints Merit Award.

Leading the way with three nominations each are Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University, India’s O.P. Jindal Global University, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), mainland China’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz University.

This year’s virtual awards ceremony will be held in November.

Find out more about the awards

THE Awards Asia 2020: the shortlist

Excellence and Innovation in the Arts

• Alfaisal University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts
• National Dong Hwa University
• O.P. Jindal Global University
• Peking University, Research Centre for Ethnic Music and Musical Theatre
• Universiti Teknologi Petronas
• Tiangong University

International Strategy of the Year

• Abdullah Gül University
• Amity University
• King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS Global
• Showa Women’s University
• Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Tianjin University, International Engineering Institute
• Xiamen University

Student Recruitment Campaign of the Year

• Independent University, Bangladesh
• National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)
• National University of Singapore
• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
• Qatar University
• Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Universiti Teknologi Petronas
• Tokyo University of Science

Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year

• An-Najah National University
• Fujita Health University
• Ho Chi Minh City Open University
• National Taipei University of Education
• National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
• Singapore Management University (SMU)
• Tiangong University
• Tianjin University

Regional or Societal Impact Award

• Alfaisal University
• Hanyang University
• King Abdulaziz University
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Kyung Hee University
• Soochow University
• Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
• The University of Tokyo

THE DataPoints Merit Award

• American University of Beirut
• Hunan University
• King Abdulaziz University
• Nankai University
• University of the Philippines
• Soochow University
• Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Technological Innovation of the Year

• Chiang Mai University
• Chitkara University
• City University of Hong Kong
• Heriot-Watt University Malaysia
• Singapore Institute of Technology
• Tongji University
• Tokyo University of Science
• Tsinghua University

Workplace of the Year

• Baiko Gakuin University
• Beijing University of Technology
• Istanbul Aydin University
• Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
• University of Management and Technology (Lahore)
• National Dong Hwa University
• O.P. Jindal Global University

Outstanding Support for Students

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• International Medical University (Kuala Lumpur)
• Katalyst, in collaboration with the College of Engineering Pune (COEP) and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
• King Abdulaziz University
• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
• Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences
• Singapore Institute of Technology
• Vellore Institute of Technology

Outstanding Leadership and Management Team

• Al-Balqa Applied University
• Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
• Beijing University of Technology
• King Faisal University
• National Dong Hwa University
• O.P. Jindal Global University
• Seoul National University
• Tsinghua University

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