---- Blick auf den Haupteingang der Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China, 18. August 2017. Peking Peking und der Tsinghua-universität Hochschulen haben Lo
--FILE--View of the main gate of Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China, 18 August 2017. Beijing's Peking and Tsinghua universities have long been heralded as China's top contenders for taking on world-class institutions such as Harvard and Oxford. But a recent ranking of Chinese universities has the pair trailing behind even some of the country's less-prestigious institutions. The rankings ª which looked at a group of universities that the government wants to be world-class in the coming decades ª rated institutions on four criteria, including students' extracurricular activities and student growth. Tsinghua University ranked 16th with 72.7 out of 100 points, while Peking University came in 21st with 71.4 points in the rankings, published by Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, a joint venture by Xi'an Jiaotong University and England's Liverpool University. Shanghai Jiaotong University leads the list with 81.2 points, with Fudan University ª also in Shanghai ª and Beijing's Renmin University rounding out the top three with 79.4 and 79.2 points respectively.
