With four academic fields, the UBA is one of the 50 best universities in the world

The QS World Ranking, which evaluates more than 1,200 high schools in 78 countries, has been ranked among the top 50 universities in the world for their Modern Languages ​​and Art and Design fields of study.

University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

he ranked 16th (for modern languages), 35th in Art and Design and 50th in law. Seven other areas of knowledge – Agriculture and Forestry; Anatomy and physiology; Anthropology, Architecture and Urban Development; geography; history and sociology lie between positions 51 and 100.

The University of Palermo (UP) is the 45th Art and Design and is the first Argentine private management to occupy such an important place, among the top 50 houses of higher education in the world.

The top 10 posts in the QS rankings of the university areas, published last night, correspond to the University of Cambridge – with 38 thematic areas -, Oxford (35), Harvard (35), Berkeley (34), Stanford (30), Mbadachusetts Institute of Technology (22), University of California at Los Angeles (13), London School of Economics (13), ETH Zurich (13) and Yale (13).

Fifth year in a row

"This is a great recognition for our faculty of design and communication and a pride that the University of Palermo has once again become the first among the private universities of Argentina," said Matías Popovsky, vice-chancellor of this house. studies, recalling that "for the fifth year in a row" is the only one in its kind of management that is in this privileged lot of the 50 best in the world.

"In 2018, 32 academic fields were in the top 200, this year we have five more, in the top 100, we have ten and among the top 50 in the world, the UBA has three," said Alberto Barbieri, Rector of this educational institution, emphasizing that: "We are in the world elite very well placed and in what we call the comparison with the Ibero-American study houses, and we continue to lead in Argentina ".

"The Argentine institutions badyzed in the study have shown good performance in terms of reputation among employers in almost all disciplines, although Argentina can not shorten the distance that separates it from the main countries in the world. field of research, "he said. the nation Martíin Juno, QS senior badyst. In this edition, four indicators were measured: the reputation of academics and employers, citations by article and the H index (ie the degree of productivity or impact of the average faculty member).

In June,
UBA was ranked 75th in the QS World University Ranking and was also the first Ibero-American University. "I congratulate teachers, researchers, non-teachers and all UBA staff for achieving this position in the international rankings, and we are maintaining and continuing to progress," Barbieri added, stressing the need for " strengthen science and technology more than other areas that have more impact on the internationalization "of education.

In highlighting the work of UBA teachers, Barbieri felt that "the question of education should be medium term". Keeping in mind that an election year would unfold, the rector of the UBA said that "in the presidential debate, there is no discussion [los candidatos] in accordance with public education policies for the next 30 years ".

"UBA's record with 10 positions in the top-100 is exceeded only in Latin America by the Autonomous University of Mexico, which ranks in the world's top 100 with 26 diplomas University and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, which gets 17 places in the top 100 ", said researcher QS.

Analyzing why the UP, which now ranks 45th, was 26th in the same rankings last year, Popovsky said that "in all cases Latin American universities in this group, a decrease has been observed in relation to the global level, it does not seem that this is a particular phenomenon of each institution, but rather a movement of this block of universities in the general consideration of raknking ".

The QS badessment, which ends with the global rankings, is made up of the contribution of more than 83,000 academics who have contributed to more than 1,250,000 surveys. For employers, some 199,123 investigations were carried out. The ranking, which can be seen in https:

/www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings, is accessed annually by more than 175 million people.