UP Diliman tops PH universities in latest EduRank report
The University of the Philippines Diliman ranked number one in EduRank's latest list of the best universities in the country.
According to the report, UPD's ranking was based on research output, non-academic reputation, and the impact of 86 notable alumni, including the late former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., former vice president Leni Robredo, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa, veteran broadcast journalist Jessica Soho, and renowned writer Ricky Lee, to name a few.
The state university also emerged at the top spot for research output in environmental science, engineering, physics, and chemistry.
Additionally, it ranked first in the liberal arts and social sciences, producing 4,937 scholarly works in the field, with 60,413 citations. These covered political science, law, sociology, history, and philosophy.
UPD also ranked 366th in Asia and 1,348th in the world.
Meanwhile, De La Salle University was named the second-best university in the Philippines.
It was followed by Ateneo de Manila University, University of Santo Tomas, UP Los Banos, UP Manila, University of San Carlos in Cebu, Mapua University-Manila, Mindanao State University, and Asian Institute of Management in Makati, respectively.
According to its website, EduRank is an independent metric-based ranking of 14,131 universities from 183 countries.
It utilizes the world's largest scholarly papers database, with 115,295,786 scientific publications and 2,964,008,315 citations, to rank universities across 246 research topics.
The Top 100 universities in the Philippines ranked by EduRank were based on research outputs, non-academic prominence, and alumni influence.
The rankings are determined by analyzing 850,000 citations received by 80,000 academic publications made by 229 universities from the Philippines, the popularity of 1,163 recognized alumni, and the largest reference database available.
