UP, Ateneo, La Salle slip in QS world university rankings
MANILA, Philippines — The University of the Philippines remains the top university in the country but its overall ranking in the world dropped from 367th in 2017 to 384th in 2018, according to the latest QS World University Rankings.
The premier state university garnered an overall score of 28.8 this year, a 4.1-point drop from its 32.9 overall score last year.
"UP Diliman is not only the home of diverse colleges, offering 94 graduate and undergraduate courses, it also runs several centers of research, many of which have been declared by the Commission on Higher Education as National Centers of Excellence," QS said on its website.
Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU) and University of Santo Tomas (UST) were also listed in the top 1,000 universities in the world.
UP Diliman's Katipunan neighbor ADMU ranked second among Philippine schools with a ranking of 651-700, also a drop from its 551-600 ranking last year.
DLSU also experienced a lower ranking this year with 801-1000, a decline from its 701-750 ranking last year.
Ranking fourth among local schools, only UST maintained its ranking of 801-1000.
Garnering an overall score of 100, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) remains the top university in the world for the seventh consecutive year.
"MIT is now an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university organized into five schools (architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; science). Yet the principle of educational innovation remains at the core of MIT’s educational philosophy," QS said.
Also in the top 10 are Stanford University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Chicago and University College London.
Meanwhile, the top universities in Asia are National University of Singapore (11th), Nanyang Technological University (12th), Tsinghua University (17th), The University of Tokyo (23rd) and The University of Hong Kong (25th).
The QS World University Rankings rank 1,000 of the world's top universities every year using six different indicators: academic reputation (40 percent), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty/student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international faculty ratio (5 percent) and international student ratio (5 percent).
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