Ranked between 25th-42nd in Asia and 2nd in Korea The ranking of 500 universities worldwide, announced on August 8, by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education placed Yonsei University in 256th place. Ranked between 25th and 42nd in Asia and second in Korea, Yonsei was preceded only by Seoul National University among Korean universities. In the individual categories, Yonsei was given 7.4 points for article citation, 10.5 points for Nature and Science articles, and 43.6 for SCI articles. For overall university achievement in relation to university size, Yonsei was given 15.2. A notable increase in the points for Nature and Science articles compared to last year (an increase of 1.8 points from 8.7 to 10.5) reflects the international level of the research done at Yonsei. The number one ranking university in the world was Harvard University, which has achieved the honor for five consecutive years. Stanford University and University of California – Berkeley ranked second and third, followed by the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among Asian universities, Tokyo University (20th) and Kyoto University (22nd) were the highest ranking universities. Among Korean universities, Seoul National University was ranked in the 102-202 range with Yonsei University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the 203-304 range. Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea University, and Sungkyunkwan University were in the 305-401 range, and Hanyang University and Pusan National University in the 402-508 range. Yonsei’s efforts to become an internationally acknowledged institution center around some key objectives set by the University, include heightening research levels to reach the top 100 in SCI rankings, the Global 5-5-10 Project (propelling five fields into the top 10 within five years), and the successfully completing second stage of the nationally funded BK21 Project.