Education

UP Ranked 101-110 on Asia-Pacific

2019-05-24 10:27:19.0

University of the Philippines ranked to the top 101-110 universities of the Asia-Pacific region, leaping from its place in the 151-160 brackets in 2018, based on the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia Pacific University Ranking released on February 20, 2019.  

Times Higher Education (THE) analyzes universities across East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania using the same performance indicators as the THE World University Rankings 2019. This year, Top 300 will be featured for Asia-Pacific universities. UP and De La Salle University are the only universities in the Philippines that made it to the table.

Based on the THE rankings for 2019, UP also ranks 87th among the top 442 universities from 43 emerging economies. Among the top 1,250 world universities, UP is in the 126-150 brackets for Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health subjects; in the 501-600 brackets for both Life Sciences and Social Sciences; in the 601+ bracket for Engineering and Technology, and Computer Science; and in the 801+ bracket in Physical Sciences. In Asia, UP’s latest ranking was 156th, securing a high spot among the top 350 universities in 25 countries.

THE is a London-based publication. Its calculation of the rankings has been subject to independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The THE university rankings cover research-intensive universities across their core missions of teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook, using 13 calibrated performance indicators.