UBA, among the top 200 universities in the world – lanacion.com (Argentina)

The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) is ranked among the 200 best in the world and is the only Argentina that is in the top 500 global, according to the ranking compiled by Shanghai University released today. It is also the second in Latin America after St. Paul.

In the final list there are only ten Latin American institutions in the top 500 worldwide. In addition to the UBA, it stands the St. Paul (the only region that is among the 150 best), the Autonomous University of Mexico, Rio de Janeiro and Católica de Chile. The UBA is the number two Spanish speaking after Barcelona, ​​Spain.

The University of Buenos Aires takes years standing at the fringe of the best academic units ranging from 151 to the top 200 . For the rector of the UBA, Alberto Barbieri, although the rankings may be important we must not take them as a determining factor.

“It is difficult to translate into a number complexity of the task of teaching, producing knowledge and, in our case, developing university extension “says Barbieri.

The category that ranges from 151 to 200, within which is the UBA, includes major universities around the world as the Sapienza (Rome), the Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Hamburg, University of Miami and University of Vienna.

Last year, the UBA had been first in the category of Spanish-speaking countries. And, almost years now, which is among the top 200 in the world.

Since 2006, the UBA is among the 200 best in the world. Photo: Shanghai Ranking

In the first three places better home study are Harvard University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the three of United States

The Shanghai ranking (Academic Ranking of World Universities – ARWU). was created in 2003 by the Chinese university system and scores more than 1200 universities per year

The parameters. which are used to catalog the institutions are: the number of students and teachers who have won Nobel prizes and Fields medals; the number of highly cited researchers; the number of articles published in Nature and Science; the number of indexed items (which are used for the validation of scientific productivity) in Science Citation Index – Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution.

The original objective of the creation of the ARWU was to determine the positioning of higher education in China, compared with universities around the world. The rigor with which it is performed were increasing their prestige and today is followed by universities, governments and media worldwide. .