Center for World University Rankings lists UFRO among the top 10 in Chile

In its recent report, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2021-2022 once again ranks the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) among the ten best universities in Chile. This year, it reached place 9 in Chile, and at the international level it is among the best 1.500 universities, maintaining its range compared to the previous report of 2020-2021.

This is the only academic ranking of global universities that assesses the quality of education, alumni employment, the quality of faculty, and the research performance. For the report, CWUR makes a classification by subject in 227 categories, according to the number of research papers published in top-level journals.

The ranking listed 14 Chilean universities, of which UFRO is in place number 9 and in third place among the state universities. At the international level, it is ranked in 1467th place, climbing 50 positions compared to the previous edition of the ranking.

CWUR

Since 2012, the Center for World University Rankings has been publishing this report, which started as a project with the aim of rating the top 100 world universities. It expanded over the years, listing the top two thousand out of nearly twenty thousand universities worldwide in 2019.

ASSESSED CRITERIA

The criteria assessed by this ranking are the Quality of Education (25%); Alumni Employment (25%); Quality of Faculty (10%); Research Performance and Research Output (10%); High-Quality Publications (10%); Influence (10%); and Citations (10%).

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Written by: Communications Office, UFRO