The Buenos Aires’ University (UBA) reached 67th place in the QS Global Ranking, prepared by the British consultancy Quacquarelli Symondsy was consolidated as the best-regarded institution in Ibero-America for the eighth consecutive year. It is also the only public, massive and free university to be located in positions of excellence, according to the report released this Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Argentine Catholic University was ranked second in Argentina (322nd) worldwide, followed by the University of Palermo (391st), the Austral University (400th) and the University of Belgrano (465th).
Year after year QS assesses research, teaching quality, reputation with employers, and internationalization, and its results are widely consulted throughout the world both when choosing where to study, as well as by companies to hire professionals. For this edition, 1673 universities from all over the world were evaluated, and The growth of the UBA is mainly explained by its good performance in two of the indicators weighted by the QS ranking: in academic reputationwhich evaluates the perceptions of scientists around the world about the best institutions in terms of research, reached the 44th place globally, with a score of 90.2
Meanwhile, in the employer reputation indicatorwhich measures the opinions of employers around the world about the institutions that offer the best professionals, achieved 40th place and a score of 93.4. According to the report, “employers are valuing Argentine graduates more.”
Since 2014, the UBA registered a systematic improvement in international evaluations, climbing 142 positions, from the 209th position -where it was seven years ago- to the current 67th. “This growth was possible thanks to the policies implemented In recent years, such as increased support for research programs in strategic areas, the development of a network of exchanges and instances of internationalization between teachers, students and researchers, giving a central role to the transfer of technology with the productive sector, as well as innovation in technology and pedagogy”, he explained Alberto Barbieri, rector of the UBA since 2014.
And he highlighted: “This recognition is made possible by the students, teachers, researchers and non-teachers who with their daily work they maintain the academic excellence of this university”.
the other universities
The UBA rose to position 67, the best mark it achieved in its historical series, in a classification that measured 1,418 study houses from 100 countries. In this way, it was positioned above the institutions of Latin America, Spain and Portugal. They are followed by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (104), the University of San Pablo (115) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (121).
As for the national the university that follows the UBA is the UCA, in position 322, and the list continues: the University of Palermo (391), Austral (400), Belgrano (465), La Plata, National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires (601-650), ITBA and San Andrés (701-750). ), Torcuato Di Tella University (751-800), National University of Córdoba (801-1000).
Globally, the world ranking is led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), followed by the universities of Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge, Harvard, the California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, University College London and the University of Chicago.