The Faculty of Medicine of the National University was recognized as one of the best in the world

The academic ranking ARWU-Shanghai awarded recognition to the Faculty of Medicine of the National University by including it as one of the best in the world in its area, among more than 2,500 universities from 104 countries.

Among the evaluation criteria are the academic and organizational competencies of the Faculty of Medicine of the National University, which was positioned in the range 151-200 worldwide, becoming a milestone in the history of medical education in Colombia.

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This faculty stands out for being the only one, of all those that exist in the country, that enters the group of the 200 best in the world, according to the ranking. ARWU-ShanghaiYo. The Faculty of Medicine also stood out as a leader in its field at the national levelin addition to occupying second place only behind the University of Sao Paulo in Latin America.

The National university of Colombia continues to stand out in higher education, since it is located in the 900-1000 ranking Shanghai. This was achieved among 9,000 thousand universities that are classified, in which the National University leads several world-renowned academic rankings and classifications.

What they indicate on the portal Shanghai Ranking, They are defined as an independent organization that measures universities around the world and is not legally subordinate to any government agency or entity..

This organization uses six objective indicators to classify the universities that exist todaythis is how it reads on their website:

These are the five indicators that the organization has to indicate in which rank the universities are and their influence in the world:

• Education quality: alumni of an institution who earn Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals.
• Faculty quality: staff from an award-winning institution Nobel and Fields medals and Highly cited researchers.
• Results of the investigation: articles published in nature and science and Articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index.
• Per capita yield: per capita academic performance of an institution.

According to the web portal ARWU-Shanghaithis measurement was first done in 2003 by the Center for World Class Universities, the Graduate School of Education at the University of Jian Tong from China.

Since 2009 Shanghai Ranking Consultancy is the company that is in charge of carrying out studies every year on what the most prominent universities in the world, which has the copyright of the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

1- 100 points

Harvard University

2- 74.8 points

Stanford University

3- 69.1 points

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

4- 67.9 points

University of Cambridge

5- 63.1 points

University of California, Berkeley

6- 60.1 points

Princeton University

7- 59, 5 points

Oxford University

8- 55, 3 points

Columbia University

9- 54, 5 points

California Institute of Technology

10- 53.8 points

University of Chicago