Poor ranking for Uruguay’s main university; Brazil and Chile top of Latam list

Monday, August 6th 2012 - 23:24 UTC

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Uruguay’s government-financed national university came up in position 79 in the QS academic quality international ranking of the top 100 Latinamerican universities. Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia were far better ranked than Uruguay’s Universidad de la Republica, Udelar, which has caused deep concern among government officials. Read full article

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ManRod
Uruguay is a very small country. They got a population of about 3,5 million.
That's 1/5 of Chile's, 1/12 of Argentinas and 1/55 of Brazil's population, so keep that in mind when considering the amount of Universities in comparison to the rest of LA.
Nevertheless, they are considered one of the countries with highest education standards, so their ranking here is indeed dissapointing.
Aug 06th, 2012 - 11:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Simon68
I'm surprised that the UBA figures in the ranking, it is not a good university. I wonder if the quality of the scientific papers is taken into account or only the quantity?
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ManRod
Hi Simon, I think they consider the citation quantity (How would you define a meassuring indicator for quality?)
If I am not mistaken, it's the high amount of citations of scientific papers which keep the UBA in the TOP 15, while the big amount of student ratio has diluted the quality somewhat.

Here you can check the different indicators considered for the ranking:

http://content.qs.com/wur/QS_World_University_Rankings_Latin_America_supplement2012.pdf
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