The University of Santo Tomas emerged as the top Philippine higher education institution in the inaugural Times Higher Education (THE) Interdisciplinary Science Rankings (ISR) 2025.
Scoring an overall 39.8-42.5 points, UST sits at the 251 to 300 bracket out of 749 universities within 92 countries.
According to THE’s website, eleven metrics measure universities’ performance in three areas: inputs (funding); process (measures of success, facilities, administrative support, and promotion); and outputs (publications, research quality, and reputation), with UST scoring 54.7, 66.7, and 29.7, respectively.
Through these measurements, the ranking targets the improvement of scientific excellence and collaboration between universities while helping institutions benchmark their interdisciplinary scientific work.
THE Chief Data Officer Duncan Ross said it “will help progress scientific collaboration and research in the higher education sector, and beyond, in so many ways. The new and groundbreaking Interdisciplinary Science Ranking will enable universities to benchmark their interdisciplinary scientific work, which we hope will spur far greater collaboration in universities and between universities both locally and globally.”
For ISR 2025, collaborations involving two or more fields among the areas of computer science, engineering, life sciences, and physical sciences are covered.
The ranking is a partnership between Times Higher Education and the Schmidt Science Fellows.
