UP drops five spots in recent QS Asian rankings
The University of the Philippines (UP) maintained its title as the highest ranking university in the country despite dropping five places in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia Rankings for 2018.
After claiming the 70th spot for the past two annual rankings, UP placed 75th among 350 other Asian universities that were included in the recent ranking.
UP Diliman was tagged by the QS website as “the flagship university of the UP System,” adding that it is the “administrative seat of the system as well as an autonomous university in its own right.”
“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,” stated in QS website.
Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) rose four places, ranking 95th, and still making it to the top 100 cut together with UP.
De La Salle University (DLSU) and the University of Santo Tomas (UST) both improved as they climbed nine spots and 12 spots higher, garnering 134th and 145th places, respectively.
UST is the only Philippine university that received a 4-star QS rating.
According also to the QS website, QS stars act as a rating system which helps provide a “detailed look at an institution” which enables one to identify which universities tops specific topics that one cares about, such as “program strength, facilities, graduate employability, social responsibility, inclusiveness, and more.”
Another Philippine university included in the ranking was the University of San Carlos in Cebu which stayed in the 301-305th bracket.
Silliman University, Dumaguete failed to make it to the rankings after being placed in the 351-400th bracket when it formerly stood in the 251-300th bracket.
Ateneo de Davao University and Xavier University were cut from the recent QS Asian ranking after each garnering a spot in the 251-300th and 301-350th brackets last time.
The criteria for attaining ranks are as follows: academic performance (40%), employer reputation (10%), student-to-faculty ratio (20%), citations per faculty (20%), international faculty ratio (5%), and international student ratio (5%).
