Ateneo ranks first among PH universities in world

THE Ateneo de Manila University, for the third straight year, ranked first among institutions in the Philippines in the annual Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.

According to the 2025 edition released on Wednesday, Ateneo ranked in the bracket 1,001–1,200.

Based on THE’s World University Rankings “Five Pillars,” the Ateneo ranked 744th globally in teaching, 1,673rd in Research Environment, 928th in Research Quality, 1,501st in Industry, and 1,511st in International Outlook.

Five other Philippine higher education institutions — the University of the Philippines (1,201–1,500 bracket), De La Salle University, Mapúa University, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, and the University of Santo Tomas (all bracketed 1,501+), also made the ranks, with 15 universities listed as reporter status, which are universities who submitted data but did not rank.

“I congratulate everyone in the university — students, faculty, staff, administrators, and professionals — on this latest achievement,” Ateneo university president Fr. Roberto Yap said on the rankings.

“The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is a global recognition that Ateneo de Manila is a top-performing university in the Philippines. However, rankings like these do not fully define what Ateneo stands for; they are merely tools for benchmarking and continual improvement as an institution,” he added.

“Our core mission remains the same: to educate and form minds and hearts to be of service to others in a distinctly Filipino, Catholic, and Jesuit way,” Yap added.

This year’s THE saw 2,092 institutions from 115 countries and territories make their ranks, with Oxford University in the United Kingdom topping the list, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and Princeton University in the United States, then the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom to round out the top 5.

Completing the top 10 are Stanford University, California Institute of Technology and University of California-Berkley in the United States, Imperial College-London in the United Kingdom, and Yale University in the United States, with ETH-Zurich in Switzerland sitting just outside the top 10.