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Seven universities in Ecuador are in the ranking of the best in the world

Posted On 11 Jun 2021

Seven higher education institutions in  Ecuador , four more compared to 2020, appear in the  ranking  of the  best universities in  the world for  2022  according to the  World University Rankings  prepared by the leading firm in international education analysis  Quacquerelli Symonds  (QS ). The listing was released on June 8, 2021.

Seven universities in Ecuador are in the ranking of the best in the world

Quacquerelli Symonds,  a British company specializing in study abroad and education, said 1,300 universities were  evaluated  globally and indicates that  this year’s university rankings  are the largest in history.

For the current assessment QS uses  five metrics  to establish the  ranking : academic reputation, employer reputation, teacher-student ratio, academic citations per faculty, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio.

In the list, which was published on June 8, 2021,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  appears in the first place for the tenth consecutive year; The  University  of  Oxford  ranks second while  Stanford University  and  University  of  Cambridge  share third place.

In  Latin America,  the  University  of  Buenos Aires , for the seventh consecutive year, is the best ranked 69th. Then there are the National Autonomous University of  Mexico  (105), University of  Sao Paulo  (121), Pontificia Universidad  Católica  de  Chile  (135) , Tecnológico de  Monterrey  (161), University of  Chile  (183), among others.

The best universities in Ecuador

The  San Francisco de Quito University (USFQ)  is the first to appear on the list at position 751-800. Then there are the  National Polytechnic School  (1 001-1 200),  Escuela Politécnica Superior del Litoral (Espol)  (1 001-1 200),  Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE)  (1 001-1 200),  Universidad Central del Ecuador  ( UCE ) (1 001-1 200),  Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil  (1 201+), and  University of the Armed Forces  (1 201+).

In the QS world ranking of June 2020, only three Ecuadorian universities appeared: Universidad San Francisco de Quito in the same category 751-800 and Escuela Politécnica Nacional and   Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador  sharing the location 801-1 000.

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