UP, 299th Top University
According to TopUniversities.com, one of the 299th top universities in the world, and the numero uno in the Philippines, is University of the Philippines. So, fellow Isko and Iska, are we happy and proud about this?
I suppose we should be. We are UP students after all. But we shouldn’t be contented with this; we should strive harder for a higher quality of education - the quality education which is being deprived of us by the government as it continuously decreases the budget for education every year. Fight for greater state subsidy!
Anyway, universities have been weighed on the following criteria:
- Research quality
- Graduate employability
- International outlook
- Teaching quality
And these are other Philippine universities that made it to the Top 520:
- 392nd - De La Salle University
- 484th - Ateneo de Manila University
- 500th - University of Santo Tomas
Not bad, or too bad?
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Wow, that’s awesome about the university! I should check mine’s… Hehe…
ey there! wow.. congrats for up! and for the other univeristies that got in the topuniversities!! woah.. that’s not bad.,. it’s great!^_^
ok din na makapasok sa top universities.. but we shouldnt be contented sa ganung place nalang!! haha go philippine educ!!!
It’s bad. But, still I’m happy my university hanged on to 500th.
Hmm, I just think their stats could a little bit be inaccurate. In recent Varsitarian news, UST is second (in the Philippines) to DLSU in terms of the number of international students—not fourth according to TopUniversities.com.
Oops, make that third according to TopUniversities.com. Sorry.
And I could really tell that we don’t currently have just 47 int’l students. Look around our campus.
And only US and the Philippines have private schools on the list. The rest are STATE UNIVERSITIES.
Actually, it’s not topuniversities.com that made the study, but the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Whoa! 392! Animo La Salle! :-)
Harvard’s on top of the list… Why of course, of course! Pffft!
Anyway, yeah, I agree about the subsidy. If it weren’t for those people who manipulate slash hoard educational funds and those people who’re still sour graping because of the fact that they didn’t pass the UPCAT *cough* Sec. Gonzales *cough*, UP would’ve soared much higher.
Disgusting, really.
Ooh. Congratulations UP. xD Yun lang muna masasabi ko..haha, ala pa ako sa college eh. Pero at least nkasama yung ibang schools sa TOP 520. ^^
Aja: Cool. Inaccurate nga eh, haha! But then, may percentages din kasi yan. Boo. Whose standards, I want to know.
Frances: That tells us something, right?
Jonar: That’s why I mentioned the web site where the ranking list is found. Moreover, from what I’ve read, Top Universities is a collaboration of THES and QS.
Talamasca: Yeah, of course. Harvard.
And what can I say more? True, true, Niño. 
That’s some pretty interesting information.
I’m not surprised at how high the rank of UP is. It would be really cool, though, if the rank gets higher :D.
dannnggg one of the top 299 in the world .. hmmm .. not too bad for a third world country .. hehe .. its alright i guess? but yay to that!
Yes! You all can do it. Raise the standards! :P when i saw “Harvard University” and “University of Cambridge” as top 2, i went “doh~” =/ as always lol.
UP being a top university at the Philippines is kind of not surprizing. It’s like a university collecting brilliant minds. Yun nga lang, hindi lahat ng brilliant minds eh masipag pumasok at mag-aral. >.
Euri: Ouch!
it’s not bad at all… pwedeng pwede nga e! but then, i think, if the government would focus their attention to education, i’m sure, UP and the other schools here in the country can achieve a higher rank!
teka, bakit wala yung univer na pinapasukan ko jan sa list? baka pang 521st haha… lol. but from what i’ve heard it’s included in the top 20universities in the country.
hmmm.. next time (and not too far from today haha!), DLSU will be number #1
hehehehe…
*peace*
Response to 1436:
hmmm i beg to disagree.. hehehe.. peace tayo.. all schools have their own “black sheep”
i remember sa previous company ko, sankatutak ang mga galing UP, UP Diliman pa, saksakan ng kaartehan, pasaway at *ehem, excuse me* hindi ako nagagalingan sa kanila. Okay pa yun galing ng UP Los Banos.
Peace tayo ha…
392nd place … I guess not bad at all.
Response to 1428:
oooh cool info!
btw shari thanks for allowing me to quote and/or post your writings!! cool!
Christian: Hehe who knows?
Ate Ems: What Euri has said is that UP is like a university collecting brilliant minds. She didn’t say that it’s the only university collecting brilliant minds, nor that all students there have brilliant minds. Sorry but I feel the need to defend her stand on this issue. And honestly, honestly lang talaga ha, mas hindi ako bilib sa ibang students ng DLSU na kilala ko. Maybe for some people their school is number one, but I guess no one could really argue the fact (with valid and factual arguments and reasoning backing them up, of course) that UP is regarded as the premier university in the country.
Siyempre bilang isang Tomasina, disappointed ako. XD Nahuhurt ako kasi baka dito nanggaling na 4th lang daw ang UST. Huhu.
Pero okay lang, depende pa rin sa estudyante kung maganda ang isang unibersidad o hindi.
mataas tlga standard nang UP I am not surprised about that news hehe
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don’t worry is rin ako dun. Ehehe!
wenk! haha! Mas mataas pa La Salle sa Ateneo at UST?? hahaha! Oh well, sige na nga payag na ako dyan tutal UP pa rin ang highest sa Pinas. “international outlook”?? hahahaha! Tawa na nga lang ako. ^__^
ah lumipat nga pala ako sa blogger kasi… Actually wala lang. eh para mas simple na lang din. Wala rin naman gaanong content ung website ko kundi blog ko lang, kaya lumipat na lang ako. labo, basta ganun!
believe it or not, I honestly think that Philippine’s standards of education are higher than that of here in America. Ewan ko kung baket.. Siguro nga lang lately eh, napabayaan na… It’s just a surprise that DLSU is higher than UST.. sa pag kakarinig ko kais mas ok sa UST. Ewan ko ulet kung baket. Haha.
well, we can also ask the question, ano at sino ang gumawa ng mga batayan ng pag-rank ng mga universities? kailangan ba nating kilalanin at sundin yung mga batayang yon?
hehe
I can’t believe though that DLSU is better than ADMU… A lot of us believed that Ateneo is better all the way… :P And same with UST too. We’re lower in rank, but what the heck, I’m still proud of my university!~
it’s sad coz 299 na lang ang UP. i hope this would be a challenge to the iskos and iskas to do better
not bad. at least UP got into the top 500 universities despite the lack of funds. UP students are bright and internationally competitive, but yeah, since our government only allots a little on education, academic excellence is hard to maintain. of course lack of facilities and other cost cutting measures affects one’s learning.
being a student in the UPD Educ’s laboratory school, I can pretty much say that UP deserves to be the the top university in the Philippines. Gaaah, after all that rigorous training and huge bulk of requirements I have to comply to, I think I have the right to say that. (: I don’t know about the international outlook, but when it comes to teacher quality I’ll give it a perfect score.
Oh gee. We’re being handled by professors with PhDs.
There. (:
Interesting
Very interesting 
Response to 1446:
Hahaha nagkataon lang siguro na ang karamihan ng mga nakilala mo from DLSU ay hindi ka bilib, at nagkataon din na ang karamihan ng mga kakilala ko na galing ng UP ay d rin ako bilib. You have your own reasons, I have my own reasons. And besides, i didnt tell na UP is the only school that is collecting brilliant minds. Did I tell something like that? No..no..no..
Peace po tayo.. I was just stating a fact .. a fact for me because I was with these people and I dealt with them directly, and I would say, mas gusto ko pa yun mga graduates ng PLM at PUP.
Peace po tayo…
Marj: Same sentiments.
Nina: Filipinos are more diligent when it comes to studying, as I’ve been hearing.
Bikoy: Exactly.
Theresa: Yes, yes. Same here.
Ava: It’s just sad that UPIS hasn’t been getting positive reviews from most people I know. It has lost its quality, they say. And I’m totally surprised that most people I know who studied there didn’t pass the UPCAT.
Ate Ems: Alright. And maybe I’m being partly-biased because I like ADMU more than DLSU.
hey Shari! Thanks for dropping by! Wow, kasama DLSU. great
Oh wow! I didn’t know that UP was so high up =] It does look like a nice school, though!
Ummm… Hello? La Sallian here. I’m right here you know. I can hear you guys talking about MY school.
All this my-school-is-better-than-yours crap is just plain bullshit, so are the people who got this stupid mentality tagging along with their every strut. I’m sick of all these side comments. THE SCHOOL WHERE YOU CAME FROM DOESN’T DEFINE YOU, at least, most of the time.
Seriously, THIS has to stop.
Ohh wow…congrats!Well my university was on the 277th place..Hmm…Thats bad eh..Last year its in the top 200!Damn..haha…
Talamasca: Haha, cool lang!
Marami kayong La Sallian dito, actually. I don’t even know a commenter who studies in ADMU. I think people are still in the UAAP state of mind. And like I’ve asked before, whose standards are the ones used in the ranking anyway, right? 
Ate Ems: Hehe, true! And everyone knows I even hate my own school. Puh-leese. Di ako bilib.
Pero masyadong maraming estudyante sa bawat pamantasan, kaya hindi naman talaga ibig sabihin sa isang school ka ay ganun ka na. All we have are generalizations from our personal interactions and experiences everyday.
hahaha! quiet na ako …
Response to 1463:
I agree. That’s why I said in my previous comments that all schools have their own set of “blacksheep” besides its not with the school, its with the person. Though I believe our school played an important role in our upbringing. Sa tagal ng oras natin sa eskwelahan… ewan ko nalang kung hindi makakainfluence yan.
Saka healthy arguments naman kami ni Shari. Friends po kami nyan so no worries
Diba Shari? Love na love ko yan si Shari noh! Ako lang pwede umaway dyan, ang ibang tao aawayin ko na pag inaway nila si Shari my dear 
:) 
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Even though UST’s at the tail of the top 500, I’m still proud of my school.
And really, if UP had only been provided of enough funds and government support, sigurado papasok pa kayo sa better position. Pero tingin ko next year tatas position niyo dahil 100 years na kayo! Haha, magiging computerized na lahat sa inyo yey.
Mas maganda cguro kung ang government natin bibili ng mga new technology things para sa bawat public University, and nakakahiya na tayo kasi hindi na maganda ang ranking natin, anu ba ang mali cnu ang dapat cchin, actually lahat tau may kasalanan, sa estudyante, sa guro at sa paaralan, SANA KUNG MAY MAAUS LNG NA NAMUMUNO SA PILIPINAS AT INIISIP LAGI ANG EDUKASYON HINDI ANG DONASYON SA TAX NG MAMAMAYAN EH DI DAPAT NASA 100 NA TAU…
GUMISING TAU, PALAWAKIN NATIN ISIP NATIN ACCORDING TO MY SOURCE ANG NFA NA GALING U.S IS ONLY P12.50 CENTAVOS PERO MAKANU DITO 25 PESOS YOU SEE FOR 1 MILLION POOR FILIPINO BUY NFA MALAKI NA KITA NG PAMAHALAAN, DAPAT KAHIT MANGURAKOT CLA DAPAT ICIPIN NILA NA ANG PILIPINAS NA PINAMUMUNUAN NILA AY NASA LOWEST LEVEL OF EDUCATION NA, CNU MAS NAKAKAHIYA, UNG ORDINARYONG TAO O UNG MGA NAMUMUNO SA PILIPINAS, PINAMAMAHALAAN NGA NILA ANG PILIPINAS PERO WALANG PAGBABAGO NAKAKAHIYA NA KAU ILANG TAON KAUNG NAKAUPO PERO WALA PA RING PAGBABAGO SA EDUKASYON.. SANA LAHAT MAKAPAG ARAL PARA LAHAT ALAM NA UNDER NA TAU NG PAMAHALAAN…
:neutral: any wayno argue na….LA SALLE is the best parin
Update: Reader Josh has called our attention to a thread on the Tsikot forums. Apparently, the list above is “superseded” by a study conducted by the CHED and PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) over the past five years. According to the study, the following are the correct Top 20 schools:
University of the Philipines-Diliman
University of Santo Tomas
Saint Louis University
University of the Philippines-Los Banos
Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan)
Ateneo de Davao University
Ateneo de Manila University
Silliman University
University of San Carlos
Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Tech
University of the Philippines-Manila
De La Salle University-Manila
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
University of the Cordilleras(Formerly Baguio Colleges Foundation)
University of Negros Occidental
Mindanao State University
Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Mapua Institute of Technology
Central Mindanao University
Adamson University
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