Pinas TOP Schools

I came across this news article in Yahoo! Philippines about top schools in Asia and with much pride and honor, 5 Philippine universities made it to the top 150! Woohoo!

"University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City remains the best university in the country as it ranked 68th in the list, followed by the Ateneo de Manila University which ranked 86th.

The De La Salle University landed on the 142nd spot while the University of Santo Tomas ranked 148th.

The University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City, which placed 251st to 300th, made it to the list for the first time.

The Davao university placed 251st to 300th, with no specific rank, because only the top 150 Asian universities were published in rank order. The next 50 were in ranges of ten while the last 100 universities were in ranges of fifty."

How did they do the ranking? Here's the methodology which I found on their website:

There are six indicators that QS uses to form an international ranking of universities and these are: Academic Reputation from Global Survey; Employer Reputation; Citations per Faculty from Sciverse Scopus; Faculty Student Ratio; Proportion of International Students; and Proportion of International Faculty.

They do this ranking to help students understand which universities rank the highest around the world for education and career decisions. Makes sense.

To view complete Asian University ranking, click here.

Top 10 Asian universities by QSIU:
1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2. National University of Singapore
3. University of Hong Kong
4. Seoul National University
5. Chinese University of Hong Kong
6. Peking University
7. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
8. University of Tokyo
9. Pohang University of Science and Technology
10. Kyoto University

Proud to be a true-blooded Thomasian! :) Go USTe! And of course, I'm proud that I've been an Iskolar ng Bayan too. ;)