THE UNIVERSITY of the Philippines-Visayas is the best higher education institution in Western Visayas region, according to the university rankings by EduRank.

UP Visayas also secured the 17th spot out of the 299 universities assessed in the country. The school placed 2,132nd in Asia and 5,788th in the world.

On the other hand, UP Visayas was ranked 695th for Wildlife and Fisheries Management and Conservation. It ranked 3,234th in Environmental Science, 1,032nd in Oceanography and 3,593rd in Biology.

The university rankings are based on research outputs, non-academic prominence and alumni influence.

Meanwhile, West Visayas State University, Central Philippine University, John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University and University of Iloilo-PHINMA were among the top 100 universities in the region.

EduRank.org is an independent metric-based ranking of 14,131 universities from 183 countries. It uses a proprietary database with an index of 44,909,300 scientific publications and 1,237,541,960 citations to rank universities across 246 research topics.