What are the 3 universities in Latin America among the 100 best in the world

In the list of the 100 best universities in the world, three of them are from Latin America.

The 2024 list prepared by the analysis company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), is led worldwide by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), followed by the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, both in the United Kingdom.

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The QS ranking is one of the most prestigious in the world. The main factor they take into consideration is academic reputation. They also measure issues such as the number of teachers per student.

The evaluators analyzed more than 17 million academic articles and the opinions of more than 240 thousand professors and experts to prepare the list, which has been published for two decades.

This year they incorporated into their metrics the employment opportunities provided by academic institutions and the international research networks they have.

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The three Latin American universities

1. University of São Paulo

O University of Sao Paulo (USP), founded in 1934 after the unification of several existing faculties, is today the largest and most prestigious university in Brazil, with more than 65,700 students, according to the QS World University Rankings.

USP, which occupies 85th place in the world ranking, is a free public university, financed mainly by the state of São Paulo, in addition to a group of companies and part of the national budget.

This university is gone ascending positions on the list in recent years, moving from 121st place in 2022 to 85th this year.

Its academic reputation is one of the highest, as is its international research network and its results in terms of professional placement.

In 2023, this university launched 50 exclusive post-doctoral scholarships for black researchers, in a country where the 56% of the population identifies this way, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

Furthermore, in Brazil, for more than a decade there has been a quota system that reserves half of the places for students arriving from public schools, this which has been considered a milestone in the changes in the Brazilian educational system.

2. National Autonomous University of Mexico

A few steps below, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), occupies 93rd position, also improving its position in recent years.

Founded in 1910 as a national university, its almost 160 thousand students – more than 4.2 thousand of them foreigners –, according to data from the QS World University Rankings, make it the largest in Latin America and the world.

UNAM has three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni.

The UNAM campus has more than 100 murals depicting the history of Mexico. (GET IMAGES).

3. University of Buenos Aires

O University of Buenos Aires (UBA), although it fell in one year from 67th to 95th place, is one of the best universities in Latin America.

Founded in 1821, it is a free public university where five Nobel Prize winners graduated..

UBA students protest against Javier Milei’s budget policy. (REUTERS).

Of its more than 117,000 students, 29,500 are foreignersaccording to the QS World University Rankings, the highest proportion of foreign students among educational institutions in the region.

The University of Buenos Aires faces a delicate situation due to the Argentine government’s decision to extend the same budget from 2023 to 2024 in a country with annual inflation of 276%.

Last week, the Superior Council of this university declared the budget emergency and called for a demonstration in defense of the academic institution for April 23rd.

Source: Elcomercio