Below is the Top 20 list of Asia's best universities:

Regional Rank, Institution, Country
1 Tokyo Univ Japan
2 Kyoto Univ Japan
3 Australian Natl Univ Australia
4 Osaka Univ Japan
5 Tohoku Univ Japan
6 Univ Melbourne Australia
7 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem Israel
8 Nagoya Univ Japan
9-17 Hokkaido Univ Japan
9-17 Kyushu Univ Japan
9-17 Natl Univ Singapore Singapore
9-17 Tel Aviv Univ Israel
9-17 Tokyo Inst Tech Japan
9-17 Tsukuba Univ Japan
9-17 Univ Queensland Aus
9-17 Univ Sydney Aus
9-17 Weizmann Inst Sci Israel
18-21 Natl Taiwan Univ China-tw
18-21 Seoul Natl Univ South Korea
18-21 Univ New South Wales Aus
18-21 Univ Western Australia Aus

Source: ARWU 2004

* Six Australian univ are in the Top 20 list, ANU is the highest ranked uni in Australia, 3rd in Asia and 53 in the world.

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Kelvin Wong Loke Yuen is a top academician with extensive years of teaching experience. He holds an MBA and a Postgraduate Diploma from Heriot-Watt (UK's World-Class University) and a BCom degree from Adelaide (Australia's Group of Eight University), as well as many other internationally recognized certifications. Check out his profile on: LinkedIn

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