Only the University of the Philippines (UP) – the country’s premier state university – made it to the top 100 of the 2022 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asian University Rankings released on Tuesday, November 2.

UP placed at 77th – eight spots lower than in the 2021 edition.

Quacquarelli Symonds is a global higher education think tank.

Released annually since 2009, the QS Asia University Rankings highlight the top universities in Asia each year.

“The methodology used to create the ranking is similar to that used for the QS World University Rankings, but with some additional indicators and adapted weightings,” QS explained on its website.

The think tank said that the set of criteria was developed in consultation with regional experts and stakeholders and was “designed to reflect key priorities for universities in Asia, drawing on as much available data as possible.”

Meanwhile, 14 other universities joined the top 687.

Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), and University of Santo Tomas (UST) improved their rankings at 124th, 160th, and 177th, respectively. In the 2021 edition, ADMU placed 135th, DLSU was at 166th, and UST ranked 186th.

Here are the rest of the Philippine universities included in the list:

• Ateneo de Davao University (501-550)
• Mapua University (501-550)
• Silliman University (501-550)
• Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (551-660)
• Central Luzon State University (601-650)
• Xavier University (601-650)
• Adamson University (651+)
• The Cebu Technological University (651+)
• Central Mindanao University (651+)
• Central Philippine University (651+)
• Lyceum of the Philippines University (651+)

 Here are the top 10 universities in Asia:

1. National University of Singapore (NUS) – Singapore
2. Peking University – China
3. The University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong
4. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – Singapore
5. Tsinghua University – China
6. Zhejiang University – China
7. Fudan University – China
8. Universiti Malaya – Malaysia
9. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Hong Kong
10. Shanghai Jiao Tong University – China

“This year’s results reiterate the intensely competitive, intensely dynamic nature of Asian higher education. China’s best universities continue to progress, Japanese higher education is stagnating – and Malaysia remains on the rise,” said Ben Sowter, director of research at QS.

The 2022 list featured 687 universities in Asia and adopted a methodology that consisted of 11 indicators:

• Academic reputation (30%)
• Employer reputation (20%)
• Faculty-student ratio (10%)
• International research network (10%)
• Citations per paper (10%)
• Papers per faculty (5%)
• Staff with a PhD (5%)
• International faculty (2.5%)
• International students (2.5%)
• Inbound exchange students (2.5%)
• Outbound exchange students (2.5%)

– Rappler.com