Level
IV Accreditation
Two Philippine universities
have achieved level IV accreditation by the Federation of Accrediting Agencies
in the Philippines and PAASCU. They are De la Salle University (DLSU) and
Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), both located in Metro Manila.
ADMU
According to a study of the
Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED) of the Philippines. ADMU ranked sixth and its autonomous Davao
branch ranked fifth in 2007. ADMU is a Christian University. Its expressed goal
is to send students into the world who will bring honor to their God and to
their country through socially beneficial Christian works. ADMU offers not only
college level and post-graduate courses, but elementary school and high school
as well.
DLSU
DLSU is operated by the
Jesuits. As is true in the United States, so here do the Jesuits maintain high
standards in the field of education. The university is not named after the
famous French explorer, but after its founder Jean Baptiste de la Salle. DLSU
did not make the top 10 in the study under consideration.
UST
The Dominicans are in charge
of the University of Santo Tomas (UST). It is named after St. Thomas Aquinas, a
13th-century Dominican theologian. UST ranked seventh in the study cited above.
Besides Christian studies, UST offers quality education in a wide variety of
academic disciplines. The same is true of ADMU and DLSU.
UP
The University of the
Philippines (UP) is a secular system of seven autonomous branches. According to
its website, it is the "only national university in the Philippines."
In the 2007 study cited above, three branches of this university gained the
three top spots. First place went to the branch in Diliman, a district of
Quezon City. The other winners are located in Los Baños and Manila.
Another Manila University
The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng
Maynila placed ninth in the survey cited.
MSU
ligan Institute of
Technology ranked eighth. Iligan lies on the northern coast of the island of
Mindanao. This institute is a branch of the Mindanao State University, whose
main campus is further inland in the nearby city of Marawi.
Two Ranking Schools
Silliman University, ranking
fourth, is located in the city of Dumaguete on the island of Negros. The
tenth-ranked St. Louis University has its campus in Baguio City in northern
Luzon.
Another Survey
The results were different
in a 2010 survey by 4 International Colleges and Universities. DLSU ranked
first; the University of the Philippines took five different places; the
University of Santo Tomas and ADMU of Manila made the grade; but the others
mentioned above dropped out of the top ten. Newcomers to the list were the
Asian Institute of Management in Metro Manila and the University of San Carlos
in Cebu.
Evaluation of Criteria, Part 1
This latter survey ranked
each university according to the popularity of its website. While this survey
shows which universities have a good reputation, it does not accurately measure
the quality of education in each university.
Evaluation of Criteria, Part 2
The criterion used by PRC
and CHED are somewhat better. They ranked each university by how well its
students fared in board exams. Yet this only shows which universities have the
best students. It does not directly reveal which universities have the best
teachers.
The Two Surveys Have Value
Still these two surveys give
a good idea which universities deserve to be in the top 10. It is impossible to
measure how much teachers actually know about their field of study and how
effective they are in communicating their knowledge. Even their degrees will not
reveal this crucial information.
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