The Philippines leading newspaper, Philippine Star released with an unofficial rankings of Philippine Universities nationwide. According to the article published by the nationwide daily last week, they compiled CHED’s memorandum orders on COEs and CODs released from 2012 to 2013.
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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) released the official Centers of Excellence (COE) and Centers of Development (COD) awards to various universities in the country.
PhilStar noted that based upon the compiled CHED’s Memorandum orders on COEs and CODs they were able to rank various schools in the Philippines. The unofficial rankings by PhilStar is based on assigned points, one point for each university’s COD, and two points for a COE.
The country’s premier educational institution and state-run University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman ranked as the Number 1 university in the Philippines with 22 COEs or 44 points. UP Diliman has centers of excellence in biology, chemistry, geology, information technology, marine science, mathematics, Filipino, Filipino and English literature, political science, psychology, anthropology and linguistics. UP Diliman has no COD.
Here’s the Top 10 Universities in the Philippines:
1. University of the Philippines (Diliman) – (44 Points) 22 COE (without COD)
2. De La Salle University (25 Points) COE (9) COD (7)
3. University of Santo Tomas (24 Points) COE (7): COD (10):
4. Ateneo de Manila University (23) COE (10) COD (3)
5. University of the Philippines Los Baños (20) COE (9) COD (2)
6. University of San Carlos (16) COE (3) COD (10)
7. Central Luzon State University (13) COE (6) COD (1)
8. Mindanao State University- Iligan Institute of Technology (12) COE (4) COD (4)
9. Saint Louis University (10) COE (1) COD (8)
10. Mapua Institute of Technology (8) COE: none COD (8)
Central Mindanao University (8) COE (3) COD (2)