Introduction: The Dilemma of STEM—Social Science/Humanities Re-Integration -- Chapter 1. STEM-Oriented Educational Policy across the World and Challenges: How STEM Disciplines Deal with 21st Learning Outcomes? -- Chapter 2. A Recent History of the University Ranking Movement: Contextualizing Trends in Categories and Criteria -- Chapter 3. STEM, University Rankings, and the Under-served: What’s at Stake? -- Chapter 4. Exploring the Relationship between STEM Research and World Higher Education Rankings: The Case of Taiwan -- Chapter 5. Finding the Humanities in STEM: Anthropological Reflections from Working at the Intersection -- Chapter 6. Developing Global Competencies through Interdisciplinary Studies: Why Collaboration is Important between STEM and Non-Stem Students -- Chapter 7. It is not Just a Technical Problem: The Intersections of STEM and Social Science in Addressing Global Poverty -- Chapter 8. Complementing STEM Higher Education: How Good are Korean Top-tier Research Universities at Developing Humanities Competencies of their STEM Undergraduates -- Chapter 9. Cultivating Students’ Diverse Abilities through Arts-Education: Emergence of STEAM Perspective -- Chapter 10. STEM Education in Changing Society: Japanese Experience and Urgent Problems to be Solved. .

This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly, although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important, chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.