Ateneo stays on top of PH school rankings

(UPDATE) ATENEO de Manila University remains the top university in the Philippines in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) survey released Thursday.

Overall, the rankings of schools in the country dropped significantly from last year.

From a rank of 351-400 last year, Ateneo slid to 1001-1200th place among the best universities in the world, followed by the University of the Philippines, which also dropped 1201-1500th from 801-1000th last year.

Ateneo de Manila. Photo from https://www.ateneo.edu/

De La Salle University also went down from 1201-1500th place to 1500+ place, while the University of Santo Tomas entered the THE rankings for the first time at 1500+th place.

Mapua University was relegated to a “reporter” school, joining the ranks of several public and private universities in the country.

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A “reporter” university is a learning institution that provided data to Times Higher Education but did not meet the eligibility criteria to receive a rank and has agreed to be displayed as a reporter in the final table.

The list includes Cebu Technological University, Central Luzon State University, University of Eastern Philippines, Mariano Marcos State University, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, Tarlac Agricultural University, and Visayas State University.

The slide in the rankings may be attributed to the new ranking system implemented by THE, which now counts 18 performance indicators in five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry and international outlook.

Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Chairman J. Prospero de Vera 3rd said the decline can also be attributed to the number of higher education institutions globally that participated in the rankings.

“So if the scores of the new/additional HEIs are high, they will be ranked higher than Philippine HEIs, and the rank of Philippine HEIs will go down,” de Vera told reporters on Wednesday.

He said the CHEd has given a grant to Mariano Marcos State University to do a comprehensive analysis of the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking using data across universities, which he said would help guide Philippine HEI’s on what they should do moving forward.

In a statement on the school’s website, Ateneo President Fr. Roberto Yap, SJ, said the school’s top ranking is “proof that our work in teaching, research, and social engagement is recognized here at home and abroad.”

“And as I always say: these rankings are only guideposts in our journey as a University. So today, we celebrate, and let us make this piece of good news an additional source of inspiration as we continue to work to be a force for good in the world,” Yap added.

De La Salle University Vice President for Research and Innovation Dr. Raymond Tan said international rankings “provide a key yardstick to broadly gauge the competitiveness of universities.”

“Our new strategic plan contains measures that will improve DLSU’s performance in each of the metrics that factor into rankings. Among these are strategies to strengthen the impact and global influence of our research,” Tan added.

Oxford University in the United Kingdom remained the top university in the world, followed by Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and University of Cambridge.

This year, 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions were ranked out of 2,673 institutions that submitted their data.

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