NewsWhore
06-14-2012, 03:00 PM
The rankings published yesterday, Wednesday 13 June by London-based consultancy firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), of the 250 best institutions of higher education in Latin America, do not include any Dominican universities. The list, in its first update after its launch in October 2011, is dominated by Brazilian, Mexican and Colombian institutions. According to the list, Brazil dominates with 65 of the 250 positions of the QS rankings for Latin America. The University of Sao Paulo is number one, and Mexico with 46 schools, Colombia with 34, Chile with 30 and Argentina with 26 round out the top five countries.
The ranking created by QS evaluated the "250 best institutions" in Latin America according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in the US, but operated on a much simpler basis, these classifications take into account three key aspects of each university to assign their label: size, focus, research intensity and age. Key criteria were academic reputation, employer reputation, number of studies and publications, faculty/student ratio, international faculty and international students.
In the second position on the list was the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, followed by Brazil's State University of Campinas. The University of Chile, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Los Andes in Colombia, the Monterrey Technological Institute in Mexico, the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, the University of Concepcion, Chile and the University of Santiago de Chile fill out the top ten universities in Latin America. Other countries with institutions on the list are Peru (10), Ecuador (6), Venezuela (6), Cuba (5), Uruguay (4), Paraguay (3), Panama (2), Guatemala (1), Nicaragua (1), and Puerto Rico (1).
www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-american-university-rankings/2012 (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-american-university-rankings/2012)
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The ranking created by QS evaluated the "250 best institutions" in Latin America according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in the US, but operated on a much simpler basis, these classifications take into account three key aspects of each university to assign their label: size, focus, research intensity and age. Key criteria were academic reputation, employer reputation, number of studies and publications, faculty/student ratio, international faculty and international students.
In the second position on the list was the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, followed by Brazil's State University of Campinas. The University of Chile, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Los Andes in Colombia, the Monterrey Technological Institute in Mexico, the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, the University of Concepcion, Chile and the University of Santiago de Chile fill out the top ten universities in Latin America. Other countries with institutions on the list are Peru (10), Ecuador (6), Venezuela (6), Cuba (5), Uruguay (4), Paraguay (3), Panama (2), Guatemala (1), Nicaragua (1), and Puerto Rico (1).
www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-american-university-rankings/2012 (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-american-university-rankings/2012)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)