THE CENTRAL Luzon State University was ranked 14th among the universities in the Philippines in the recent Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

CLSU placed 5,239th in the world and 2,201st in Asia. It had an impact rank of 13005, openness rank of 4153, and excellence rank of 5182.

Webometrics ranked 364 universities in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, CLSU moved three places higher compared to the February 2024 results and now holds the 239th position in Southeast Asia

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the largest public research body in Spain.

It ranked the universities based on Web Content Impact (number of external networks), Openness or Transparency (number of citations from top researchers), and Excellence (number of cited papers

The Ranking Web started in 2004 with the aim of offering full coverage of Higher Education Institutions in various countries.

It has ranked 32,000 HEIs from more than 200 countries. It is the largest academic ranking of HEIs offering an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise for providing reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world every six months.