PH universities in world ranking

4 Philippine universities among world’s top 1000



Marjaleen Ramos
Manila Bulletin
20 June 2019

Four universities in the Philippines made it to the QS World University Rankings 2020.

The rankings, released on Wednesday, showed that University of the Philippines (UP), the country’s flagship state university, moved up from 384th last year to 356th.

356. University of the Philippines 

Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) ranked to 601-650th spot from 651-700th last year.

601-650. Ateneo de Manila University

 De La Salle University (DLSU) and University of Santo Tomas (UST) both retained their 801-1000th spots.

801-1000. De la Salle University

801-1000. University of Sto. Tomas

The QS ranks the top 1,000 universities in the world according to academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio.

The top five in the list were Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford and University of Chicago.

In Asia, the top school was Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, which beat out the National University of Singapore (NUS) which dropped to second place.

Tsinghua University was third, Peking University fourth and University of Tokyo fifth.