THE UNIVERSITY’S medicine and English language and literature programs secured spots in the 2022 Quacquarelli-Symonds (QS) world subject rankings.
UST’s medicine program appeared in the rankings for the fourth consecutive year. It slipped from the 601-650 bracket last year to the 651-670 class this year.
The University of the Philippines (UP) remained in the 301-350 bracket.
UP still has the most programs in the rankings among Philippine schools with 21, an increase from last year’s 15.
The University’s English language and literature programs ranked for the first time in the 301-320 bracket, the fourth best in the Philippines.
Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, and UP were the top schools for English language and literature subjects in the Philippines, all ranking in the 151-200 range.
Ateneo placed in four other areas: modern languages (201-250), arts and humanities (327), social sciences and management (393), and business and management studies (401-450).
La Salle was ranked 201-250 in linguistics, 301-330 in modern languages, 323 in arts and humanities, 351-400 in business and management studies and chemical engineering, 377 in social sciences and management, and 501-520 in economics and econometrics.
Four components were used to rank the Philippine universities by subject: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, and the h-index, which measures the productivity and impact of each published scientist or scholar at a university. Justin Benedict T. Lim
