{"id":134,"date":"2008-11-07T21:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T11:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-11-07T21:08:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T11:08:59","slug":"ateneo-up-rise-in-2008-world-university-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Ateneo, UP rise in 2008 world university rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two local universities, the <strong>Ateneo de Manila University<\/strong> (ADMU) and the <strong>University of the Philippines<\/strong> (UP), saw their rankings rise in The Times Higher Education \u2013 QS (THE-QS) World University Rankings 2008, a leading global ranking of higher education institutions announced.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the overall rankings released last month, Ateneo rose from number 451 in 2007 to number 254 this year, while UP rose from 398 last year to 276.<\/p>\n<p>The THE-QS World University Rankings are based on data gathered in the following categories: peer academic review, recruiter review, international faculty ratio, international student ratio, student-faculty ratio, and research citations per faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Ateneo had an overall score of 48.0 out of 100, up from 30.8 last year, while UP posted a 45.9 overall score, up from 34.7 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, two other Philippine institutions &#8211; the <strong>University of Santo Tomas<\/strong> and the <strong>De La Salle University<\/strong> &#8211; were part of the group ranked 401-500.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvard University<\/strong> and <strong>Yale University<\/strong>, both of the USA, ranked 1st and 2nd, respectively. <strong>Australian National University<\/strong> ranked No. 16 while <strong>University  of Sydney<\/strong> ranked No. 37.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who really messed up, US President George W. Bush has an MBA from Harvard Business School. On the other hand, deposed President Joseph Estrada was a dropout from Ateneo de Manila University.<\/p>\n<p>The THES &#8211; QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings around the world, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Times_Higher_Education_Supplement\">The Times Higher Education Supplement<\/a> (THES) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quacquarelli_Symonds\">Quacquarelli Symonds<\/a> (QS).<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two local universities, the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) and the University of the Philippines (UP), saw their rankings rise in The Times Higher Education \u2013 QS (THE-QS) World University Rankings 2008, a leading global ranking of higher education institutions announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}