THE UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas improved its ranking by one notch to fourth-best Philippine institution in the July 2024 publication of Webometrics’ Rankings of World Universities.
The University significantly rose to 2,379th from the previous 2,620th global ranking in the latest edition of the Webometrics Ranking.
The 21-year-old Webometrics Rankings biannually measures the volume and quality of more than 31,000 research and academic materials published online by schools around the world.
De La Salle University Manila emerged as the country’s leading institution at 1,521st place globally. It was followed by the University of the Philippines Diliman, which fell by 971 notches to 1,827th, and Ateneo de Manila University (2,094th). After UST, Mapua Institute of Technology came in 3,207th place globally.
A total of 364 Philippine universities made it to this year’s ranking of world universities.
Higher education institutions are assessed based on the visibility or impact of their web content (50%), excellence or the number of most cited papers across all disciplines (40%) and openness or the number of researcher citations (10%).
UST performed best in openness or transparency at 2,328th place, although it is lower than the 2,284th ranking in the previous edition.
The openness rank is an indicator that ranks a university according to the number of citations from its top 310 researchers.
The España-based university obtained 51,409 citations and remained the fourth-highest out of about 30 Philippine schools in terms of Google citations. It was still behind University of the Philippines (395,491), De La Salle University Manila (135,283) and University of the Philippines Diliman (63,076).
The University placed 3,504th and 2,905th in the impact and excellence indicators, respectively.
United States schools Harvard University (1st), Stanford University (2nd) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3rd) retained their ranks as the top-ranking institutions in the world. F
