The latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings placed four of the country’s universities in the top 1000, with the University of the Philippines joining the upper half of the list.
UP placed 356th in the 2020 list, 28 places higher than its ranking in 2019.
“As with previous editions, UP held the top spot in the Philippines, ahead of three other Philippine universities that made the latest rankings. It is the only Philippine university among the 16 Southeast Asian institutions in the upper half of the list,” the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs said in a statement.
According to UP, it is the university’s fourth climb in the QS world rankings and its highest since 2014.
Meanwhile, Ateneo de Manila University also climbed to 601-650th spot from 651-700th in 2019. De La Salle University and University of Santo Tomas maintained their 801-1000th spots.
Universities are ranked by QS according to six 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).
In the 2020 edition, more than 94,000 responses from academics and around 45,000 responses from employers worldwide were collected and analyzed by QS.
The top five spots are filled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Oxford, and California Institute of Technology.