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Four Philippine universities are in the QS.com 2009 Top 200 Asian University list. Three of them within the top 85.

The University of the Philippines was the highest ranked among the Philippine schools at 63rd. De La Salle University came in at 76th. Ateneo de Manila University was ranked 84th. University of Santo Tomas was the only school out of the top 100, ranking 144th.

The latest result is the first regional ranking of the London-based QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd., which has been operating the THE -QS World University Rankings since 2004. A total of 11 Asian countries are featured in the rankings.

Five Asian countries dominated the top 10 spots that include Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and China. Six other countries completed the list – Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

The top 10 Asian universities are as follows:

1. University of Hong Kong (HongKong)
2. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (HongKong)
3. University of Tokyo (Japan)
4. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HongKong)
5. Kyoto University (Japan)
6. Osaka University (Japan)
7. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea, South)
8. Seoul National University (Korea, South)
9. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), and both at no.
10. National University of Singapore (Singapore) and Peking University (China).

The ranking is based on four criteria- research quality, teaching quality, graduate employability, and internationalization.

“A global ranking seeks to identify truly world class universities, contributing to the global progress of science, society and scholarship, a regional ranking should adapt to the realities of the region in question,” the group explained.

The research quality criteria weighs a total of 60 percent based on QS’ Asian Academic Peer Review – academics with knowledge of research in Asian institutions (30 percent); papers per faculty (15 percent); and citations per paper (15 percent).

Teaching quality, which weighs 20 percent is based on the institution’s student-faculty ratio. The graduate employability criteria weighs at 10 percent based on QS’ Asian Employer Review – employers with experience of recruiting from Asian institutions.

Internationalization weighs at 10 percent based on international faculty, international students, inbound exchange students, and outbound exchange students with 2.5 percent weight each.

 

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