UP improves rating in world university rankings

The University of the Philippines has improved its rating in the recently released world rankings of the Londonbased Time Higher Education (THE).

UP – the only Philippine university in this year’s list – was ranked between 601 to 800, one level higher from the previous year ’s 800+ ranking.

The country’s premier state university also improved its overall rating from 18.5 percent last year to 30.6 percent this year.

The ranking is based on 13 performance indicators grouped into five areas: teaching (the learning environment), research (volume, income and reputation), citations (research influence), international outlook (staff, students and research) and industry income (knowledge transfer).

Based on the results released on Wednesday, UP scored 20.5 percent in teaching, 10 percent in research, 40 percent in citations, 32.6 percent in industry income and 39.8 percent in international outlook.

THE said the top 1,000 higher education institutions across the world were from 72 countries, mostly from Europe.

Two universities from the United Kingdom led the list this year, with University of Oxford maintaining its hold in first place, followed by the University of Cambridge that jumped from fourth to second place.

Following them are American institutions California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Princeton University.

Completing the top 10 are the Imperial College London in UK, University of Chicago in the US and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in Switzerland.

The National University of Singapore is the best university in Asia, notching the 22nd spot along with the University of Toronto in Canada.