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Our University has climbed to its best historical position in the QS Latin America University Rankings: 13 out of 416 universities in the region and No. 1 in Peru, which places us in the top 3.1%. This achievement of our entire university community reaffirms our commitment to international quality education to transform the country.
This year, PUCP scored 81.2 points out of a possible 100. Likewise, our University has improved its position for the fifth consecutive year with a total advance of 12 places compared to the 2018 edition, when we ranked 25th.
"We are very close to entering the top 10 of Latin American universities, which is a clear reflection of the effort that professors, researchers, administrators, students and graduates put into their daily work," explains Juan Carlos Dextre, director of the Academic Directorate of Planning and Evaluation.
Director of the Academic Directorate of Planning and Evaluation PUCP
This year, QS listed the 416 best higher education institutions in Latin America, among which we surpassed universities such as the University of Santiago de Chile (Chile), the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) or the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). On the Peruvian side, twenty universities have been listed -four of which are in the top 100-, among which we maintain our leadership.
The QS world ranking assesses the conditions necessary for quality education. For this purpose, in addition to analysing standardised data, QS conducts surveys of academic reputation and employer surveys.
Our best ranking indicator is reputation among employers: we rank 10th in Latin America with 97.2 points.
The second best and most important indicator (30% of the weighted score) is academic reputation: we reached 11th place with a score of 94.7. This evaluates the recognition that our research has among academics in Peru and abroad through a survey that QS carries out among experts in the region.
"This year, our greatest growth was in the number of citations per paper indicator, which shows the great work that our PUCP researchers have been doing, as well as the important impulse that the Vice-Rectorate for Research has been giving", says the director of the DAPE.
The other categories assessed - and our score in these - were International Research Network (84.8), Web Impact (80.3), Student Faculty Ratio (69.2), Citations per publication (51.6), Ph.D. Faculty Ratio (28.7) and Publications per faculty member (13.7).
Our Academic Directorate of Planning and Evaluation (DAPE) has prepared a complete analysis of our performance in this ranking, the details of the indicators and a comparison with the other Peruvian universities listed.
