The top universities in the nation have been ranked in the Asian rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), an education consulting business, along with two government-run colleges.
There are now 16 universities from the Philippines listed in the QS Asia rankings, with the following universities making their first appearances: University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Far Eastern University (FEU) Manila, and Mindanao State University (MSU).
While FEU and MSU were classified in the 701-750 and 801+ categories, respectively, USC and PUP were positioned in the 551-600 bracket.
There are currently four Philippine state universities listed in the QS Asia rankings after PUP and MSU were included. They join the University of the Philippines (UP) and Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, which made its debut in the rankings in 2019.
UP moved up 11 ranks from last year’s 87th place to this year’s 78th place in the QS Asia rankings, maintaining its position as the top-ranked university in the Philippines.
The Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) came next, finishing 137th overall, a little lower than 134th the year before.
Besides ADMU in the rankings are De La Salle University, which jumped from 171st to 154th this year, and the University of Santo Tomas, which fell to 179th this year from 175th last year.
With a regional ranking of third, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore at number four and Universiti Malaya in Malaysia at number eleven, the National University of Singapore remains the best university in South-east Asia.
In the meantime, the top-ranked university in Asia is Peking University, a state university in China.
Based on a criterion of eleven indicators, QS rates universities in Asia. Which are as follows:
reputation in academia (30%)
repute of the employer (20%)
10% of students to faculty
worldwide network for research (10%)
citations each article (10%)
faculty members’ papers (5%)
employees with PhDs (5%)
percentage of foreign instructors (2.5%)
percentage of students from abroad (2.5%)
percentage of foreign students arriving (2.5%) percentage of foreign students leaving (2.5%)
The metrics that assess the institutions’ inbound and outbound student exchange programmes, according to QS, “offer additional insights into the internationalisation activity at universities in Asia” and are not included in the global ranking.
You can read the whole QS Asia university rankings here.
