UP, Ateneo, DLSU among Asia’s top 350 universities

While the global rating agency placed India at 24th position in the list of the countries evaluated for determining world’s strongest higher education systems, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, was ranked 16th among the Brics nations (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) universities and 35th among the Asian Universities.

The QS evaluated 517 universities in the region for the 2016 instalment of the QS University Rankings: Asia.

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has broken into the top 50 of the 2016 Asia university rankings that were released on Tuesday by British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

The rankings are based on research data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database, and metrics powered by SciVal analytics, part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio, and separate academic and employer reputation surveys conducted only in the Arab region by Ipsos in the Mena region.

Schools were ranked according to nine indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student, citations per paper, worldwide faculty, global students, papers per faculty, inbound exchange, and outbound exchange.

Taiwan had 12 schools ranked in the top 100, the same as last year, and 30 in this year’s top 300, two more than last year’s 28.

It is followed by the Ateneo de Manila University, also in Quezon City, which jumped to the 99th spot from 114th in 2015. National University of Singapore (NUS) has retained its number one position among the Asian Universities. In third place is the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), followed by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.

Five are in the region’s list of top 50. The American University of Beirut (AUB) in the Lebanon came in second, also unmoved from last year’s position.

For the third year in the row, The National University of Singapore kept its top spot with a ideal overall score of 100.The University of Hong Kong is at a close second, while Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University ranked third.

Image via National University of Singapore.