UP.,,excellent
ADMU,..very satisfactory
UST,..satisfactory
DLSU,..needs improvement
FEU,..POOR

Harvard, like UP, has an open and liberated atmosphere.

Harvard, like UP, is the most famous and most prestigious university in its home country.

Harvard, like UP, has a diverse student body.

Harvard, like UP, accepts only the best of the best students.

Harvard, like UP, has avery rich and well-respected professional schools.

Harvard, like UP, is great at all academic levels — undergrad, grad, and postgrad.

Ateneo is good, but it’s different from Harvard. For one, it is a religious school affiliated with the Jesuits. It has a high school and is exclusive for boys. (Harvard does not discriminate gender and sexes.) Ateneo uses blue as its schools color. (Harvard has crimson which is almost similar to UP’s maroon.) UP was founded by some American scholars who were all Harvard alumni.

I would think Ateneo is more of a Georgetown or Boston College than a Harvard. UP is more of a Harvard than Ateneo is. Anyone who would think Ateneo is like Harvard must be out of his mind. Probably is delusional.

It is sad that you consider UP as the best…

If so, then you are trying to equate QUALITY EDUCATION with militancy– as what UPians usually do.

Ateneo is the best…

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Alam niyo rin ba that both UP, and Ateneo, not even a single Unversity sa Pilipinas na pumayag na sumali sa surveys na yan. According to a forum message posted at their website http://www.up.edu.ph that the survey should not be taken seriosly:

to quote: “In evaluating institutions, however, the THES-QS computes half of the index based on its reputation as perceived by academics (peer review, 40%) and global employers (recruiter review, 10%). Since it is not specified who were surveyed or what questions were asked, the methodology is obviously vulnerable to manipulation.”

“According to UP Vice President for Public Affairs Dr. Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, the University of the Philippines manifested its refusal to participate in THES-QS survey in writing as early as July 2007 because Times could not explain where it got the figures on which UP’s rank was based in 2006. In response to UP’s objection, however, Quacquarelli Symonds research assistant Saad Shabbir simply wrote back that if it did not receive the information by the deadline then it would be “forced to use last year’s data or some form of average.”

Apparently for the QS researchers, old data would do—data that had been questioned precisely because its source was dubious. UP has not participated in any international survey of academic institutions since 2000. To date, the country’s National University has neither released official statistics for survey purposes nor consented to any survey undertaking by a local or international body.

“Ateneo de Manila University, whose current rank was supposedly an improvement from last year, cautions its alumni and the public to view the results with some degree of prudence. In her comments on the 2007 THES-QS survey published in the Ateneo de Manila University website (http://www.ateneo.edu/index.php?p=120&type=2&aid=4489), Vice President for the Loyola Schools Dr. Ma. Assunta C. Cuyengkeng writes that the rankings do not even reflect Ateneo’s vision and mission. Instead of getting distracted, Cuyengkeng encourages its community to work instead towards strengthening the leadership and excellence of faculty and students as its contribution to national development. ”

“There is no debate about the importance of defining, measuring, interpreting and improving institutional excellence. But current international rankings contained in the THES-QS cannot be taken seriously until it establishes its own credibility with the academic community.”

Read the full text at nang maliwanagan kayo… http://www.up.edu.ph/features.php?i=87