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The shortlist for the 2020 Times Higher Education Awards 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, 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 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ launched last year to celebrate the achievements of universities across the continent, building on the success of THE¡¯²õ long-running UK-focused awards, dubbed the ¡°Oscars of higher education¡±.

This year¡¯²õ 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 51¹ú²úÊÓƵn institutions for THE¡¯²õ rankings: Regional or Societal Impact Award, and THE DataPoints Merit Award.

Leading the way with three nominations each are Taiwan¡¯²õ National Dong Hwa 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, India¡¯²õ O.P. Jindal Global 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), mainland China¡¯²õ Southern 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Saudi Arabia¡¯²õ King Abdulaziz 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ.

This year¡¯²õ virtual awards ceremony will be held in November.

Find out more about the awards

THE Awards 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ 2020: the shortlist

Excellence and Innovation in the Arts

• Alfaisal 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• The Hong Kong 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science and Technology
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts
• National Dong Hwa 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• O.P. Jindal Global 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Peking 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, Research Centre for Ethnic Music and Musical Theatre
• Universiti Teknologi Petronas
• Tiangong 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

International Strategy of the Year

• Abdullah G¨¹l 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Amity 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• King Mongkut¡¯²õ Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS Global
• Showa Women¡¯²õ 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Southern 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Tianjin 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, International Engineering Institute
• Xiamen 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Student Recruitment Campaign of the Year

• Independent 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, Bangladesh
• National 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Sciences & Technology (NUST)
• National 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Singapore
• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Qatar 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Southern 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Universiti Teknologi Petronas
• Tokyo 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science

Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year

• An-Najah National 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Fujita Health 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Ho Chi Minh City Open 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• National Taipei 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Education
• National Yunlin 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science and Technology
• Singapore Management 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ (SMU)
• Tiangong 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Tianjin 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Regional or Societal Impact Award

• Alfaisal 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Hanyang 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• King Abdulaziz 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
• Kyung Hee 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Soochow 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Sungkyunkwan 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ (SKKU)
• The 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Tokyo

THE DataPoints Merit Award

• American 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Beirut
• Hunan 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• King Abdulaziz 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Nankai 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of the Philippines
• Soochow 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Southern 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Technological Innovation of the Year

• Chiang Mai 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Chitkara 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• City 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Hong Kong
• Heriot-Watt 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Malaysia
• Singapore Institute of Technology
• Tongji 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Tokyo 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Science
• Tsinghua 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Workplace of the Year

• Baiko Gakuin 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Beijing 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Technology
• Istanbul Aydin 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
• 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Management and Technology (Lahore)
• National Dong Hwa 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• O.P. Jindal Global 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Outstanding Support for Students

• Hebrew 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Jerusalem
• International Medical 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ (Kuala Lumpur)
• Katalyst, in collaboration with the College of Engineering Pune (COEP) and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
• King Abdulaziz 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Shoolini 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Biotechnology and Management Sciences
• Singapore Institute of Technology
• Vellore Institute of Technology

Outstanding Leadership and Management Team

• Al-Balqa Applied 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Al-Farabi Kazakh National 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Beijing 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Technology
• King Faisal 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• National Dong Hwa 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• O.P. Jindal Global 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Seoul National 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ
• Tsinghua 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

ellie.bothwell@timeshighereducation.com