The institute, which has been hit by a student strike since last week, ranked from 201st to 250th among the best in the world. Another 66 Brazilian universities were evaluated
In the midst of a student strike, which demands the hiring of teachers and a new student loyalty project, the University of São Paulo (USP) received the news on Wednesday 27th that it continues to be considered the best university in Latin America, according to THE World University Rankings. This is one of the main international university rankings, drawn up by the British consultancy firm Times Higher Education (THE).
In the ranking of the top 200 universities in the world, the leader in the ranking is the University of Oxford, in England, followed by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both in the United States. Of the top ten positions, seven come from institutions located in the United States.
After the top 200, the ranking groups the universities into groups, initially of 50. For the fourth consecutive year, USP is found between 201st and 250th position. This same group includes universities such as Illinois, Chicago (United States), Wollongong (Australia) and Tel Aviv University (Israel).
In its 20th edition, the ranking evaluated around 1,900 higher education institutions from 108 countries according to 18 indicators, grouped into five categories: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry and internationalisation. Of the five indicator categories, USP was among the top 100 institutions in the world in two: research environment and teaching.
In total, Brazil evaluated 67 institutions. The State University of Campinas (Unicamp) was the second best positioned Brazilian, in the group between 351 and 400.
Third place went to the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Inexp), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRS), included in the same group, between 601 and 800.
Four institutions share the next position, in the group between 801 and 1000: the Federal University of Minas Gerais, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio).
See the list
- 1 – University of Oxford (UK)
- 2 – Stanford University (United States)
- 3 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
- 4 – Harvard University (United States)
- 5 – University of Cambridge (UK)
- 6 – Princeton University (United States)
- 7 – California Institute of Technology (United States)
- 8 – Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
- 9 – University of California, Berkeley (United States)
- 10 – Yale University (United States)
- 11 – ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- 12 – Tsinghua University (China)
- 13 – University of Chicago (United States)
- 14 – Peking University (China)
- 15 – Johns Hopkins University (United States)
- 16 – University of Pennsylvania (United States)
- 17 – Columbia University (United States)
- 18 – University of California, Los Angeles (United States)
- 19 – National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- 20 – Cornell University (United States)
- 201~250 – USP
- 351~400 – State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
- 601~800 – State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRS)
- 801~1000 – Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp) and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio)
Strike
The USP strike began last week, the 21st, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH), and has already spread to at least 12 courses, including the Polytechnic and the Faculty of Law. In recent days the students have received support from the teachers’ association.
In an interview with Estadao, the rector Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior says he doesn’t understand the real reason for the strike. “There is no point in a prolonged strike when the situation is already resolved. We haven’t hired for a long time, the number of teachers has decreased, it’s true. But from the first day of administration we have tried to resolve the problem”, says he who is in Germany to forge international partnerships: direct negotiations with the strikers were the responsibility of the vice-chancellor this Thursday 28th.
Source: Terra
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