UP & Ateneo in top 500 school list

Two leading Philippine universities are among the top 500 schools in the world. In the 2007 rankings published by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), UP and Ateneo were the only RP schools to meet the rigid requirements.

In the worldwide study, University of the Philippines (UP) came in at 398 and Ateneo de Manila University at 451. No other local university is in the list, not UST which is older than Harvard, nor is La Salle, Ateneo's perennial rival.

HARVARD University leads the list of top universities, followed by a three-way tie for number two among YALE University, University of OXFORD and University of CAMBRIDGE. Imperial College LONDON is on fifth, PRINCETON University at sixth, University of CHICAGO and the CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology on a tie for seventh, UCL (University College LONDON) follows and MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology is on tenth place.

The rest of the top 20 are as follows: 11 COLUMBIA University; 12 MCGILL University – Canada; 13 DUKE University - United States; 14 University of PENNSYLVANIA; 15 JOHNS HOPKINS University; 16 AUSTRALIAN National University; 17 University of TOKYO; 18 University of HONG KONG - Hong Kong; 19 STANFORD University; 20 CARNEGIE MELLON University; 20 CORNELL University.

Other noteworthy rankings: 22 University of California, BERKELEY; 25 Kyoto University; 29 Northwestern University; 33 National University of Singapore; 36 Peking University; 38 Chinese University of Hong Kong; 40 Tsinghua University China; 41 University of California Los Angeles; 47 Boston University; 49 New York University; 53 Hongkong University of Science and Technology; 59 London School of Economics;

69 Nanyang Technological University of Singapore; 77 Purdue University; 102 Georgetown University; 119 University of Southern California; 122 Texas A and M; 149 City University of Hong Kong; 159 Tufts University and Michigan State U; 208 Brandeis University; 246 Unversiti Malaya (Malaysia); 307 Universiti Sains Malaysia; 309 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; 364 Universiti Putra Malaysia; 395 University of Indonesia; (UP at 398),

The full listings feature on the QS website and on the THES website. They have been running since 2004 and are broken down by subject and region. The THES - QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings around the world and the ranking weights are: Peer Review Score (40 percent); Recruiter Review (10 percent); International Faculty Score (five percent); International Students Score (five percent); Faculty/Student Score (20 percent); Citations/Faculty Score (20 percent).