Thursday, January 17, 2008

Top 500 Universities in the World

University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila made it to the Top 500 Universities of the World in 2007. Graded by the Times Higher-QS World University Rankings, the state-owned U.P. notched 398, while Jesuit-run ADMU was 454th. U.P. scored 34.7; ADMU, 30.8.

De La Salle University of Manila and University of Santo Tomas, which previously made it to the top 500, didn’t figure this year. They scored 23.9 and 20.8, respectively.

The top 20 universities of the world were: Harvard, US; Cambridge, UK; Yale, US; Oxford, UK; Imperial College of London; Princeton, US; California Institute of Technology; University of Chicago; University College-London; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Columbia, US; McGill University, Canada; Duke, US; University of Pennsylvania; Johns Hopkins, US; Australian National University; University of Tokyo; Hong Kong University; Stanford, US; Cornell, US; Carnegie Mellon, US.

Fifteen universities in Southeast Asia made it to the top 500: two in Singapore, five in Thailand, four in Malaysia, two in Indonesia, and two in the Philippines.




*original article found here.

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