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Our University ranks first in Peru, according to the recent Times Higher Education (THE) Latin America 2021 ranking presented at the THE Latin American University Summit. We are also ranked 36th in Latin America.
In this ranking, 177 universities in the region were listed, of which 8 are from Peru. PUCP not only obtains the highest overall score, but also leads in the areas of research and teaching.
The THE ranking gives scores for 13 indicators grouped into 5 thematic areas. Of these, the one with the greatest weight is teaching, which evaluates the training ecosystem and represents 36% of the final score. Here, our University obtained 49.2 points out of a possible 100.
Another area of great importance is research, which represents 34% of the final total. In this area, PUCP scored 61.7 points, more than 16 points higher than the national university in second place.
These results are an achievement of our entire university community. They also reaffirm our commitment to promote research with international impact and to train professionals capable of transforming our country.
Find out more about our institutional performance in this ranking in the detailed analysis done by our Academic Directorate for Planning and Evaluation (at spanish).
THE rankings are the only ones audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers in its information collection and management process. In this edition of THE Latin America ranking, the sources of information used were (1) surveys conducted randomly to academics internationally; (2) the information collected by THE, referring to the academic production from Scopus, corresponding to the period 2016-2020; and (3) the information sent by each university, which corresponds to 2 years before the publication of the ranking.
