THE SILLIMAN University ranked 9th in the list of top 10 universities in the Philippines of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

SU joined the University of the Philippines-System (1st), University of the Philippines-Diliman (2nd), De La Salle University Manila (3rd), Ateneo de Manila University (4th), University of Santo Tomas (5th), Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology (6th), University of San Carlos (7th), Mapua Institute of Technology (8th) and Central Mindanao University (10th) in the January report of the Webometrics Ranking.

The university was also one of the eight Philippine universities included in the top 550 universities in Asia in the 2021 Asian University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds.

It also placed 8th in UniRank’s 2020 Philippine University Ranking and was the only school outside Luzon included in the top ten.

Webometrics ranks universities based on their Open Access initiatives and electronic access to scientific publications and other academic material.

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group under the Spanish National Research Council, the largest and leading public research institution in Spain.