Six Hong Kong universities have made it into the top 50 in the latest rankings of Asian tertiary institutions by Britain's Times Higher Education magazine for the first time since 2017.

The city's two oldest universities were both in the top 10, with the University of Hong Kong maintaining its sixth place and the Chinese University moving up to ninth.

According to the magazine's Asia University Rankings 2025 published on Thursday, the latest Hong Kong entrant is Baptist University, which jumped from 63rd to 50th place.

The University of Science and Technology kept its 12th placing while Polytechnic University rose to 18th.

City University, which saw its ranking drop slightly to 16th, said in a statement that it "continues to excel in various evaluation indicators".

Beijing's Tsinghua University continues to top the rankings for the seventh consecutive year while Peking University retained its second place.

Two Singapore universities followed closely behind, while the University of Tokyo held steady at fifth.

The magazine ranked the universities based on their research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international outlook.