THREE Philippine academic institutions, including the state-run University of the Philippines, improved their standing in the 2025 World University Rankings by UK-Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
UP emerged as the country’s top-performing university after ranking 336th with an overall score of 33.3 among more than 1,500 higher education institutions (HEIs) from 106 countries and territories included in the rankings released yesterday.
UP, which stood at 404th place in the 2024 QS ranking, also emerged highest among Philippine HEIs in academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-to-student ratio, citations per faculty, sustainability and international research network.
UP, No. 18 overall in Asia, was followed by Ateneo de Manila University at 516th, while De La Salle University was in the 641-650 bracket.
In the previous rankings, Ateneo stood at 563 and DLSU in the 681-690 bracket.
Two Philippine universities — University of Sto. Tomas and Cebu-based University of San Carlos — slipped from 802 to 85th last year to 851st to 900th and 1201st to 1400th to 1400-plus, respectively.
Like last year, only five Philippine universities made it to the QS rankings.
Singapore’s National University emerged as No. 1 among Asian universities, followed by Peking University, Nanyang Technological University, University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua University.
The QS ranking said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States is still the leader among all universities in the world for the 13th consecutive year.
The rest in the top 10 are Imperial College of London, University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, University College London, and California Institute of Technology.
QS said it employed its “largest-ever methodological enhancement” which introduced three new metrics such as sustainability, employment outcomes, and international research network to rank the universities.
It added that it also utilized analysis drawn from 17.5 million academic papers and expert opinions of over 240,000 faculty and employers to determine the rankings.
