Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global university evaluation agency in the UK, announced "QS Asia University Rankings 2023" on the November 8. Following 2021, Hanyang University ranked 24th in total and 6th in domestic universities.

Beijing University, which ranked second in Asia last year, topped the list. It is the first time that a Chinese university has topped the list since 2009 when the evaluation of Asian universities began. The National University of Singapore, which has been ranked first since 2018, fell to second place. Tsinghua University in China, which was ranked fifth last year, rose to third place. Hong Kong University ranked fourth, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore ranked 5th, Zhejiang and Fudan University in China ranked 6th. Ninth place was Malaya University in Malaysia, and tenth place was Shanghai Jiaotong University in China. Following last year, five Chinese universities were included in the top 10 this year.

There was also a change in the ranking of domestic universities. KAIST was the only one in Asia to be included in the "top 10" list as 8th in total, followed by Yonsei University (12th), Korea University (15th), Seoul National University (17th), Sungkyunkwan University (18th), Hanyang University (24th), POSTECH (24th), and Kyung Hee University (42nd). While the ranking of domestic universities is still on the decline, Hanyang University retained its rank the same as last year. Among 89 Korean universities subject to evaluation, 12 universities rose in rank compared to the previous year, including KAIST (14th → 8th), Yonsei University (16th → 12th), Seoul National University (18th → 17th), and POSTECH (26th → 24th), while 66 universities fell in rank.

2023 QS Asian University Evaluation (Hanyang University, by Index)

Hanyang University ranked 24th in Asia's overall ranking and 6th in Korea, the same ranking as 2021. By index, the "Employer Reputation" index scored the highest with 93.4, followed by the "Inbound Exchange" with 92.6 points and the "Faculty Student Ratio" per professor with 92.5. As an indicator of the increase, the "International students" scored 84.1, an increase of 8.5 points from the previous year. On the other hand, due to the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) pandemic, the "Outbound exchange rate" seems to have fallen from last year's highest score of 99.8 to 87.2.

Meanwhile, three out of four Korean universities (74%) have fallen in rank compared to last year, deepening concerns over weakening university competitiveness. In an article related to the “Chosun Ilbo”, Bae Young-chan, Hanyang University's professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, said, "The government has not come up with any measures." He added, "If we neglect university reform as it is this way, we will fall further behind in science and technology fields such as semiconductors, which are the basis of national competitiveness."