What do the North American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, and the Brazilian University of São Paulo (USP) have in common? Above all, the reputation earned by the excellence of its teaching, reaffirmed in the most recent edition of the QS Quacquarelli Symonds international ranking, one of the instruments most taken into account when defining a higher education institution.
MIT appears for the 12th consecutive year at the top of the QS World University Rankings 2024, followed by Cambridge and Oxford, both from the United Kingdom. USP is in 85th place, followed, among Brazilian universities, by the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), in 220th position (check out the table with the others, some with less specific classification, as they are towards the end of the list).
Leadership in the global ranking continues with MIT because the QS survey – one of the most respected, along with THE – values aspects such as sustainability and employability. MIT is known for focusing a lot on these issues. Furthermore, it is an institution with high student retention rates and its former students tend to have high salaries after completing the course. Next on the list are the North American Harvard and Stanford.
The result is based on the analysis of 17.5 million academic articles and the expert opinions of more than 240 thousand academic teachers and employers. The following criteria are taken into account: academic and employer reputation; proportion of teaching students; citations by faculty; international proportion of foreign teachers and students; international research network; employability and sustainability.
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