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.

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.

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