Philippines falls behind in 2024 THE Asia University Rankings

MANILA, Philippines — No Philippine university made it to the top 100 of the Times Higher Education's 2024 Asia University Rankings, with the latest results showing that the country's top schools either dropped or retained their place.

While still the top university in the Philippines, the Ateneo de Manila University has slid from 84th place to the 401-500 bracket, according to THE's latest Asia rankings published on Wednesday.

The last time that no university from the Philippines appeared in the top 100 of THE's Asia rankings was in 2022, when then-frontrunner University of the Philippines dropped to 129th place from ranking 84th the previous year.

Meanwhile, this is the fourth year in a row that the University of the Philippines slipped in THE's Asia rankings, landing a few brackets lower from 201-250 to 501-600.

The De La Salle University and Mapua University remained in the 501-600 bracket and 601+ bracket, respectively. 

The University of Santo Tomas placed for the first time in THE's Asia rankings, landing in the 601+ bracket after being tagged with a "reporter" status the previous year.

A “reporter” status is given to a school when it submits data to THE but falls short of meeting the criteria needed to be ranked against other schools.

The latest rankings show that nine other universities in the Philippines received a "reporter" status. These are the following: Cebu Technological University, Central Luzon State University, Mariano Marcos State University, the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology, the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, Tarlac Agricultural University, University of Eastern Philippines, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines and Visayas State University.

Philstar.com reached out to the Commission on Higher Education for comment and will update this story with their response.

Universities in Asia are evaluated across five areas with the following percentages: research quality (30%), research environment (28%), teaching (24.5%), industry (10%) and international outlook (7.5%).

According to the UK-based education magazine, its Asia University Rankings uses the same performance