4 RP Schools Barge into Top 500 Universities Worldwide
October 17, 2008 by cd
According to the Times Higher Education Supplement-Quacquarelli Symonds (THES-QS), four prominent Philippine universities are included in their list of Top 500 schools worldwide for 2008.
This year’s result showed a significant improvement in the standing of Philippine universities against other school worldwide.
The four RP schools and their worldwide rankings:
1. Ateneo de Manila University – 254
(Last year: 451)
2. The University of the Philippines – 276
(Last year: 398)
3. De La Salle University – 415th
(Last year: Out of the 500)
4. University of Sto. Thomas – 476th
(Last year: Out of the 500)
THE-QS based its results on the following categories:
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January 18th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Not reliabe ang THE-QS. My prof. in UP verified na UP didn’t even tried to participate in the said ‘popularity’ contest. And we event made it to the top. Dapat wala kami sa top 500.
January 31st, 2009 at 5:06 pm
wat’s with ateneo???
they beat UP and LA Salle??
oh i can’t believe it
maybe biased ang survey ng THES Q
ateneo doesn’t meet the standard that UP and La Salle has…
March 31st, 2009 at 12:22 am
i find the network rivalry references rather pathetic and irrelevant to the topic at hand.
anyway, i’m happy that admu ranked best among the 4 philippine universities. It would have been better if up participated, though. i checked the qs top universities site and found that no conclusive statistical data were submitted by up. it would have been a much fairer comparison, and i believe that up would have ranked much higher if they had participated. up, after all, is the state university.
as for la salle being better than ateneo…
both schools submitted their data, and ateneo bested la salle. some claim that the survey is not reliable. nevertheless, the study appears to have used acceptable research practices (if not, established universities like those within the ivy league would have long objected with the results, right? they wouldn’t want their names associated with a crappy study/ranking). With regards to the rankings being a popularity contest: isn’t the popularity, vis-a-vis the image and prestige of the school a big part of the school’s identity? Because there will be no “image” if the identity of the school (i.e. the actual qualities of school) does not correspond to the said image. these being said, i would have to say that ateneo deserves the credit of being better than la salle. as for next year, we’ll just have to wait and see.
April 24th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
@ razor
oi umaus ka.sbrang kapal na sabhn mong napagiwanan ng pnahon ang UP???duh! kung alam mo lang kung ganu kagaling ang UP! oh sabgay di mo malalaman kc pangmatatalino lng ang skul namin another thing is, sa dnamidami ng achvmnts ng UP e hnd na yan hinahaylyt kc super sanay na..duh! hnay2 ka sa mga cnsb mo coz u dnt know how hard and great it is to study in up!!!!!! shut up bitch
July 11th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Kaya nataasan ng ateneo ang UP dahil maraming international students dito, at HALOS mag kalevel sila ng education quality ng UP at under siya ng Loyola schools. tignan niyo yung criteria.