The institution has had a sustained growth that is reflected in national e international mediations.
Los Lagos University has been positioning itself in rankings which measure key development aspects on a continuous and sustained basis both Chile and Latin America, demonstrating growth, quality and reputation management.
This year was not the exception, it continues growing in this type of measurement, of almost 200 universities were included, ULagos advanced 16 places in Times Higher Education Latin America, from 97th place held in 2021 to 81st this 2022, which results were deliver on Thursday July 14.
More than 1.700 Latin America universities and there are two conditions in order to be included in this ranking: have over 200 quality scientist publications. In addition, the institutions must prove specific information required by the ranking, which not all of them can deal with.
This measurement considerates five criteria to elaborate the ranking: teaching, research, citation, internationalization and industry revenues.
STRATEGIC PLAN
“In the leadership axis, we have proposed to carry out a comparative analysis to see how the university is positioned in the Americas global level context with in order to a set of rankings that measure differrent variables, different quality dimensions of the institutions. In this the University has been increasing its position in this last time, thanks to the research accreditation we are more visible every day, we are happy and we will continue with this type of actions because this allows us to identify variables where we can improve deeply”. Oscar Garrido, Rector of the ULagos said.
Los Lagos University proposed its Institutional Strategic Plan design for 2030 year considering national and international measurements, as strategic indicators that would allow it to have a reference of its positioning. For this reason, it focused on Times Higher Education and Latin American QS ranking.
The last one measures: academic reputation, employer reputation, professors and students percentage, staff with doctoral degrees, international research network, citations per article, articles per faculty and web impact. The 2022 results positionated ULagos in 26th place out of a total of 56 universities in Chile.
However, there are also other measurements that show how the institution has been getting stronger in different aspects.
One of these rankings is Webometric that measures: web content impact, most researchers cited, and most articles cited. Between 1717 universities at Latin American level, ULagos ranks 97th place, while among Chilean universities it ranks 15th out of a total of 56 institutions.
Another recognized ranking is SCmago that clasify academic institutions related to investigation area. Chilean universities are ranked at 20th and 94th Latin American level. SCImago measures three main factors: research, society and innovation.
“The University it is recognized as part of a national and international universitary system and the rankings must be considerated as a reference, they are parameters which we must to take, analyze them and see what are useful for us to be able to continue improving. We do not work for the rankings but it does give us material to make a lesson about university purpose and its time evolution”, Christopher Thackeray, Director of ULagos Strategic Studies said.
