September 15, 2015, 1:08p.m. – UST HAS kept its spot in the latest Quacquarelli-Symonds
(QS) world university rankings, holding on to the 701+ bracket while three
other Philippine universities slid in the annual listing.
The University of the Philippines (UP) remained the
country’s top university despite slipping to the 401-410 bracket from last
year’s 367th place. Ateneo de Manila also went down to the 501-550 bracket from
the 461-470 bracket last year.
De La Salle University joined UST in the 701+ bracket, after
figuring in the 651-700 bracket last year.
In the subject rankings, Ateneo and UP secured spots in the
101-150 bracket in English Language and Literature, while La Salle placed in
the 151-200 bracket. UST has failed to get a spot in the subject area after
landing in the 101-150 bracket in 2011.
State-run UP was the only Philippine university to rank in
Modern Languages (151-200 bracket), Agriculture (151-200 bracket), Medicine
(251-300 bracket), Development Studies (51-100 bracket), Politics and
International Studies (151-200 bracket) and Communication and Media Studies
(151-200 bracket).
In Sociology, UP and Ateneo placed in the 151-200 and
101-150 brackets respectively.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology continued to
dominate the world rankings, after being named the top university worldwide
with a perfect score of 100 for the fourth consecutive time since 2012.
Meanwhile, the National University of Singapore remained the
top university in Asia, improving its rank to 12th place from last year’s 22nd.
The highest ranking for UST in the QS survey came in 2008,
when it landed in the 401-500 bracket. The survey started in 2004.
This year, a total of 891 institutions were ranked by the
London-based consultancy, with more than 76,700 academics and 44,200 employers
surveyed and more than 3,500 institutions considered.
The QS rankings are based on five criteria, namely: academic
reputation (40 percent), employer reputation (10 percent), faculty to student
ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 percent), international faculty
ratio (5 percent) and international student ratio (5 percent). Dayanara
T. Cudal
