UP, 299th

I know this is quite old (I first got the news here), but I was reminded of this item again when I went to my alma mater earlier today for some work-related business.

According to the a 2006 list of TopUniversities.com, out of the top 520 universities surveyed around the world, the University of the Philippines ranks 299th. UP is tied with three other schools as the top 299th university in the whole world.

UP is no. 1 in the Philippines, followed by:

392nd - De La Salle University
484th - Ateneo de Manila University
500th - University of Santo Tomas

The top 20 universities in the world according to the list are:

1	Harvard University	United States
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
4=	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
4=	Yale University	United States
6	Stanford University	United States
7	California Institute of Technology	United States
8	University of California, Berkeley	United States
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	Princeton University	United States
11	University of Chicago	United States
12	Columbia University	United States
13	Duke University	United States
14	Peking University	China
15	Cornell University	United States
16	Australian National University	Australia
17	London School of Economics and Political...	United Kingdom
18	Ecole Normale Supérieure	France
19=	University of Tokyo	Japan
19=	National University of Singapore	Singapore
21	McGill University	Canada

This makes Peking University the top university in Asia.

In the site's 2005 list, UP, along with four other schools, only ranked 372nd out of the 500 universities surveyed.


The ranking of the universities have been analyzed based on the following criteria:

- Research quality
- Graduate employability
- International outlook
- Teaching quality