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SAO PAULO – Brazil has risen one place in the international ranking of the best universities and is now the sixth country with the highest number of best-evaluated institutions in the list of the British magazine Times Higher Education (HE). The publication is one of the most important in the world in the evaluation of higher education. The country is ahead of Spain, Italy and Germany, and has 52 institutions, six more than last year. The University of São Paulo (USP) is the best located national institution and has advanced in relation to the last survey.
This year’s ranking compiles information from 1,527 universities, a record, from 93 countries and regions. the U.S leads the list, with 181 institutions; followed by Japan (116), United Kingdom (101), China (91) and India (63). The top 10 is dominated by the United Kingdom and the United States. The British The University of Oxford, which is ahead of one of the most promising studies to develop the vaccine against the new coronavirus, in 1st place, followed by Stanford and Harvard (both in the US).
A HE notes that while the United States and the United Kingdom dominate the top 10, the China enters the top 20. Tsinghua University is the first Asian institution to achieve a position in the elite group. On the other hand, Europe had a record number of universities in the top 200.
Ranked the best in the country, USP rose in the rankings and is in the range of the 201-250 best institutions (after the 200th place, universities are ranked in ranks). In the previous survey, it ranked 251-300. The State University of Campinas (Unicamp) appears as the second best Brazilian, in the range between 401-500, an improvement over last year, when it was in the range 501-600.
Vahan Agopyan, Dean of USP, commented on the challenges of higher education amid the new coronavirus pandemic. “Innovative approaches to education had to be developed and implemented to allow programs to continue during the pandemic. Multidisciplinary collaborative research was aided by the need to respond quickly to societal demands to find solutions to the challenges caused by the pandemic. The competition was transformed into cooperation, it is a new approach to research, “he said while participating in one of the panels of the 2021 World Summit.
Brazil, which previously had 46 universities in the ranking, now has 52. Joined the list: Federal University of Sergipe, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Federal University of Maranhão, Federal University of Paraíba, Federal University of Piauí and Federal University from Uberlândia.
For the evaluation, THE considers, among other factors, the number of research citations, the degree of qualification of the professors, the transfer of knowledge to society and the level of internationalization. Commenting on the result, EL director Phil Baty said the advancement of covid-19 could have a significant impact on universities. “This new classification provides clearer evidence of a shift in the balance of power in the global knowledge economy from higher education systems. This trend is expected to accelerate further as the pandemic heralds a perfect storm of huge challenges, especially for Western universities, especially those in the United States and the United Kingdom, face a very real risk of losing significant international student talent, “he said.
In the case of Brazilian universities, the health crisis posed challenges in the organization of hybrid classroom and research systems, involving face-to-face and remote activities, and facing resource limitations, since the pandemic has seriously affected collection and it has affected the budget for public higher education. In recent years, the country’s institutions have already suffered restrictions on funding for research and financing.
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