At the company QS Quacquarelli Symonds today published the 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings, one of the most prestigious lists in the world, where Colombian universities continue to improve their performance, not only rising positions but also increasing their participation.
Colombia appears as the third most represented Latin American country and significantly increased representation in global rankings, going from 19 to 25 classified institutions.
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Likewise, the QS firm maintains that national universities improved their reputation among academics, while they continue to present difficulties for the impact of research and internationalization.
Thus, Universidad de los Andes is the highest ranked university in Colombia. Climb 16 positions to rank 220th worldwide. It is the highest-regarded Colombian institution among employers, according to the QS Employer Reputation Survey, and is home to the highest proportion of international faculty in the country, ranking 469th in this metric.
For its part, The National University, the second best performing university, has also improved 16 places and is ranked 243rd. It is the Colombian university with the highest reputation among academics, ranking 98th worldwide.
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The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is the only other Colombian institution that appears in the world Top-500, while the Icesi University is located in the 651-700 range. It is the university with the highest faculty-to-student ratio, ranking 180th in the world on this metric.
Colombia has difficulties in terms of the impact of research, since none of its universities is above 600 in the world in terms of citations per professorr. The University of Cartagena (band 1201-1400) is the university with the highest score in this criterion, showing a special preponderance of research in Medicine.
Thus, these are, in order, the best Colombian universities in the ranking.
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1. Universidad de los Andes (ranked 220th worldwide)
2. National University of Colombia (243)
3. Pontifical Javeriana University (382)
4. Bolivarian Pontifical University (601-650)
5. University of Antioch (651-700)
6. Externado University of Colombia (651-700)
7. Icesi University (651-700)
8. Savannah University (701-750)
9. Rosario University (751-800)
10. University of the Valley (801-1,000)
11. EAFIT University (801-1000)
12. University of Córdoba – Colombia (1001-1200)
13. University of the North (1001-1200)
14. Industrial University of Santander – UIS (1001-1200)
15. University of Bogotá-Jorge Tadeo Lozano Foundation (1201-1400)
16. Catholic University of Colombia (1201-1400)
17. University of Caldas (1201-1400)
18. University of Cartagena (1201-1400)
19. De La Salle University (1201-1400)
20. University of Medellin (1201-1400)
21. University of Santander – UDES (1,201-1,400)
22. University of Cauca (1201-1400)
23. University of Magdalena (1201-1400)
24. Technological University of Pereira (1201-1400)
25. Technological University of Bolivar (1,401+)
Ben Sowter, Vice President of QS, comments: “It is important to recognize that Colombia has experienced a period of strong economic growth since the turn of the century. This was reinforced by the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. , which ended the longest civil war in the world”.
Sowter continues: “In parallel with prosperity and peace – as is often the case – higher education saw access improve and enrollment numbers rise. For example, Colombia’s gross tertiary enrollment rate doubled from 28 percent in 2004 to 55 percent in 2018. Meanwhile, the number of higher education graduates rose from 65,720 in 2002 to 482,122 in 2018.”
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Finally, he adds: “Yet Colombian investment in higher education has been historically low. An issue that reached its peak in 2018 with protests and an emergency budget supplement to combat a US $5.7 billion shortfall in university spending. Now, with the presidential elections imminent, it is essential -whatever the result- that the government prioritizes the provision of resources to its universities”.
Colombia in the region
At the regional level, there are 190 Latin American universities classified in this edition of the ranking, 39 more than last year. 90 universities maintain the same ranking as last year, 28 improve and 33 decline. The University of Buenos Aires is named the best university in Latin America for the eighth consecutive year.
These are the 10 best in the region:
1. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) (position 67)
2. National Autonomous University of Mexico (104)
3. University of São Paulo (Brazil) (115)
4. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (121)
5. University of Chile (167)
6. Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico) (170)
7. State University of Campinas (Brazil) (210)
8. University of the Andes (Colombia) (220)
9. National University of Colombia (243)
10. Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (323)
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Of the 18 Latin American countries represented in the ranking, only eight (Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Cuba) have at least one university among the top 500 in the world.
the world ranking
Globally, there are 1,418 institutions from 100 countries. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieved a record eleven consecutive years as number one in the world. The University of Cambridge rises to second place, while Stanford University remains in third position.
The best universities in the world are:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2. University of Cambridge
3. Stanford University
4. Oxford University
5. Harvard University
6. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
7. imperial college london
8. UCL
9. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
10. University of Chicago
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