We hope you find this article helpful. One of 16 universities in the city, Hiroshima University of Economics (HUEC) is a private institution which was established in 1967 as the first university specialising in economics in the Chyoko and Shikoku region of Japan. Numbers in parentheses denote each university’s ranking on the 2020 list. The eighteenth edition of Quacquarelli Simmons (QS) World University Rankings was published on June 8, 2021, in which the ranking of the world’s leading universities was revealed. Ritsumeikan University ranked 1201+ in THE World University Rankings and 401+ in THE Asia University Rankings. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability 5–53–70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925 Japan Tel: +81 3 5467 1212 Fax: +81 3 3499 2828. (This entry is …