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BY FRANCIS EARL A. CUETO Reporter
Manila Times

FOUR Philippine universities made it to the top 200 list of Asian universities drawn up by the consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. (QS) for 2010.

The top Philippine university on the list was the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University, which tied with Taiwan’s National Central University in the 58th slot.

It was a big jump for Ateneo from the 84th spot last year.

State-run University of the Philippines, however, fell from 63 to 78, while University of Santo Tomas advanced to 101st from its former 144th spot.

De la Salle University suffered the worst blow among the four Philippine universities, falling to 106th from the 76th spot.

Some universities from Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand ranked higher than the four Philippine schools that made it to the top 200. The four universities also represent a glaring minority, given there are around 2000 higher learning institutions in the country.

According to Wikipedia, Quac-quarelli Symonds specializes in education and study abroad. It has over 100 employees and been operating globally from offices in London (head office in Hampstead, North London), Paris, Singapore, Stuttgart, Boston, Washington D.C., Sydney, Shanghai, and Johannesburg since its founding in 1990 by Wharton School Master of Business Administration graduate Nunzio Quacquarelli.

In measuring quality, QS used the following criteria: Asian academic peers (30 percent), papers per faculty (15 percent), citations per paper (15 percent), student-faculty ratio (20 percent), Asian employer review (10 percent), international faculty (2.5 percent), international students (2.5 percent), inbound exchange students (2.5 percent), and outbound exchange students (2.5 percent).

Rounding up the top 10 universities are the following: University of Hong Kong ; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; National University of Singapore; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; The University of Tokyo (Japan); Seoul National University (South Korea); Osaka University (Japan); Kyoto University (Japan); Tohoku University (Japan) and Nagoya University (Japan).

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