EDUCATION institutions that will join global rankings have been assured of assistance from the Commission on Higher Education.

CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III was elated by the result of the 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings that showed 15 Philippine universities among the best higher education institutions in the world.

De Vera said he was happy that the efforts and initiatives of Philippine universities to contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals were recognized internationally.

“Their inclusion among the world’s best universities is an incentive to the HEIs efforts of improving their faculty profile, research, student and faculty exchanges, and degree offerings. More importantly, by integrating the SDGs into their curriculum and strategic internationalization plans, HEIs are in tune with the global commitments to achieve the SDGs,” De Vera said.

With its placement in the top 200, Ateneo de Manila University is the highest-ranked Philippine HEI. Since the rating’s establishment in 2019, no Philippine university has obtained a higher position.

The most notable improvement in the international ranking was the entry of eight State Universities and Colleges – Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte, Central Luzon State University in Nueva Ecija, Tarlac Agricultural University in Tarlac, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology in Nueva Ecija, Visayas State University in Leyte, Cebu Technological University in Cebu and Tarlac State University in Tarlac.

More than 1,000 universities from 106 countries participated in this year’s rankings.