THE DE LA SALLE University is the best private higher education institution in the Philippines, according to the university rankings by EduRank.

DLSU secured 2nd spot out of the 229 universities assessed in the country. The school placed 507th in Asia and 1,752nd in the world.

The school was also the top Philippine HEI in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Psychology.

Moreover, DLSU was the country’s leading private university in Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Environmental science, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Physics.

The University also leads in the rankings of the various subfields of the above-mentioned areas such as Linguistics, Law, Philosophy, Industrial Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biotechnology, InformationTechnology, Data Science, Software Engineering, Clinical Psychology, Education Majors, Child Psychology, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Marketing, and Management, among others.

The rankings’ indicators consist of the HEI’s research performance, non-academic prominence, and alumni score.

EduRank.org is an independent metric-based ranking of 14,131 universities from 183 countries. It uses a proprietary database with an index of 98,302,198 scientific publications and 2,149,512,106 citations to rank universities across 246 research topics.