{"id":253854,"date":"2019-08-05T18:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T21:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=253854"},"modified":"2019-08-05T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T21:53:58","slug":"university-of-sao-paulo-ranked-as-latin-americas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/university-of-sao-paulo-ranked-as-latin-americas-best\/","title":{"rendered":"University of S\u00e3o Paulo ranked as Latin America\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usp.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> (USP) ficou ranked 128<sup>th<\/sup> on this year\u2019s list from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cwur.org\/2019-2020.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)<\/a>.\u00a0The list was made public this Monday (5) by the UAE-based consulting firm, whose ranking includes institutions from around the world. USP is the best-ranked university in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has lost positions compared with last year, which had seen it place 77<sup>th<\/sup> in the global ranking. \u00a0Other well-ranked Brazilian universities include the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), at 349<sup>th<\/sup>; Campinas State University (Unicamp), at 353<sup>rd<\/sup>; and Universidade Estadual Paulista J\u00falio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp), at 444<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>For the eighth year straight, Harvard was named the best university in the world. Other top-ranking institutions are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2<sup>nd<\/sup>), Stanford University (3<sup>rd<\/sup>), the University of Cambridge (4<sup>th<\/sup>) and the University of Oxford (5<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p>Universities are graded on seven factors: quality of teaching, alumni employment, quality of faculty, research output, high-quality publications, influence, and citations. The methodology has been enhanced this year to give equal emphasis to the learning environment and research.<\/p>\n<p>The USP said in its <em>Jornal da USP<\/em> newspaper that it got the highest score in research performance, placing 89<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-253844\">Marcos Santos\/USP Imagens<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says the United Arab Emirates-based Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). Although it has lost positions on the global ranking, the university remains the best placed in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":253844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[10426,9534,10425,9579,9862],"class_list":{"0":"post-253854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-university-en","9":"tag-brazil-en","10":"tag-ranking","11":"tag-uae-en","12":"tag-usp-en"},"wps_subtitle":"So says the United Arab Emirates-based Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). Although it has lost positions on the global ranking, the university remains the best placed in the region. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}