University Of Southeastern Philippines Debuts In Asia's Top 300 Universities List

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Five Philippine tertiary schools made it in this year's list of "Top 300 Universities In Asia" by education and career network Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

For the very first time, University Of Southeastern Philippines (USP) in Davao City was included in the list. It was among the schools listed in the 251-300 bracket.

USP was joined by The University of the Philippines-Diliman (ranked 68th), Ateneo de Manila University (86th), De La Salle University (142nd), and the University of Santo Tomas (148th).

For the second straight year, QS named the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as the top Asian University.

Completing the Top 10 are National University Singapore, University of Hong Kong, Seoul National University (South Korea), Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Peking University (China), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea), University of Tokyo (Japan), Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea), and Kyoto University (Japan).

The ranking was based upon the following criteria: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Faculty/Student Ratio, Papers Per Faculty, Citations Per Paper, International Faculty Review, International Student Review, Student Exchange Inbound, and Student Exchange Outbound.