UP makes it to 2024 QS World University Rankings in 3 subjects

MANILA, Philippines — The University of the Philippines (UP) ranked among the top universities in the world in the 2024 edition of the Quacquarelli-Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject.

In the results published on April 10, three Philippine universities placed in one out of four subject disciplines of the QS, while only UP ranked in 2 other subjects.

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For the Arts and Humanities subject, Ateneo de Manila University was the best university in the Philippines with a 325 rank and a score of 65.6, followed by UP at rank 351 and a 64.8 score, and De La Salle University at rank 401-450.

UP was the sole Philippine university that ranked in the Engineering and Technology subject as well as the Life Sciences and Medicine subject, placing 501-550 for both subjects.

Meanwhile, no Philippine universities made it to the Natural Sciences subject ranking.

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The following are the best universities in the world per subject as ranked by the QS:

Arts and Humanities

1. Harvard University
2. University of Cambridge
3. University of Oxford
4. Stanford University
5. University of California, Berkeley
6. Yale University
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8. New York University
9. University of California, Los Angeles
10. UCL, University of Toronto

Engineering and Technology

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Stanford University
3. University of Oxford
4. University of Cambridge
5. University of California, Berkeley
6. ETH Zurich
7. Imperial College, London
8. Harvard University
9. California Institute of Technology
10. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Life Sciences and Medicine

1. Harvard University
2. University of Oxford
3. John Hopkins University
4. Stanford University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. University of Cambridge
7. Imperial College, London
8. University of California, San Francisco
9. UCL
10. Karolinska Institutet

Natural Sciences

1. Harvard University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. University of Oxford
4. University of Cambridge
5. Stanford University
6. California Institute of Technology
7. University of California, Berkeley
8. ETH Zurich
9. Imperial College, London
10. Princeton University