<sod>Separately, the [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy that ranks universities' research performance and places a high weightage on the number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals won by a university’s alumni and faculty placed NTU in the range of 101-150th worldwide and 2nd in Singapore. However, this ranking methodology has proven to be inherently biased against young universities like NTU.<ref>http://www.hey.ntu.edu.sg/issue24/features_02.html</ref> As of May 2015, Microsoft Academic Search website ranks NTU's overall engineering as the 8th in the world for the last 5 years, according to the number publications and H-Index criteria.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=7&topdomainid=8&subdomainid=0&last=10&orderby=6&continentid=0/ | title = Microsoft Academic Research -Top organizations in engineering- }}</ref><eod>
<sod>Separately, the [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy that ranks universities' research performance and places a high weightage on the number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals won by a university’s alumni and faculty placed NTU in the range of 101-150th worldwide and 2nd in Singapore. Nevertheless, the alternate [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] that excludes the weightage on Noble prices and Field Medals actually places NTU at 151-200.<ref>http://www.shanghairanking.com/Alternative_Ranking_Excluding_Award_Factor/Excluding_Award_Factor2014.html</ref> Despite this, NTU's president have concluded that the ranking methodology has proven to be inherently biased against young universities like NTU due to the inclusion of award factor.<ref>http://www.hey.ntu.edu.sg/issue24/features_02.html</ref> As of May 2015, Microsoft Academic Search website ranks NTU's overall engineering as the 8th in the world for the last 5 years, according to the number publications and H-Index criteria.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=7&topdomainid=8&subdomainid=0&last=10&orderby=6&continentid=0/ | title = Microsoft Academic Research -Top organizations in engineering- }}</ref><eod>