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THE
University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila
University made it to the list of top 500 universities
of the world in the 2007 Times Higher-QS World
University Rankings.
UP, a
state institution, was ranked 398, while the Ateneo de
Manila University, a private Catholic institution run by
the Society of Jesus, got a ranking of 454. UP got a
score of 34.7, while Ateneo scored 30.8.
De La
Salle University of
Manila
and the University of Santo Tomas, which previously made
the top 500, did not make it this time. They obtained a
score of 23.9 and 20.8, respectively.
The top
20 universities of the world, according to the survey,
are:
1.
Harvard University, United States
2.
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. Yale
University, US
4.
University of Oxford, UK
5.
Imperial College, London
6.
Princeton University, US
7.
California Institute of
Technology,
US;
University of Chicago, US
9.
University College London, UK
10.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,
US
11.
Columbia University, US
12.
McGill University, Canada
13. Duke
University, US
14.
University of Pennsylvania, US
15.
Johns Hopkins University, US
16.
Australian National University, Australia
17.
University of Tokyo, Japan
18.
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
19.
Stanford University, US
20.
Cornell University, US; and Carnegie Mellon University,
US.
The top
200 included four from the developing world: two from
Brazil, one from Mexico and, for the first time, an
African university,
Cape Town,
in 200th place.
Among
the 15 universities that made it to the list of the top
500, two are from Singapore, five from Thailand, four
from Malaysia, two from Indonesia and two from the
Philippines. |
