Once again, the prestigious ranking places the UFRO as one of the best universities in Chile and in first place as a regional state university.

Once again, the prestigious ranking places the UFRO as one of the best universities in Chile and in first place as a regional state university.

The excellence of the Universidad de La Frontera is recognized and valued once again. This time by the Times Higher Education Rankings 2018, which ranks the UFRO in ninth place of the national universities and as number 1 of the regional state universities.

This report of the THE World University Rankings 2018 judged the best universities in the world, a total of 1,102 institutions (121 more than in 2017), among which are 13 Chilean universities, 5 of them state universities. The UFRO stands out as the second best state university of Chile after the Universidad de Chile.

In the global report, where the Times Higher Education Ranking judges research-intensive universities by using 13 performance indicators, such as teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook, the UFRO is placed in the section 801-1000.

The Times Higher Education Ranking is one of the most prestigious international rankings that evaluates the levels of complexity of universities.

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SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS (SIR) 2017

The Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2017 report ranked the Universidad de La Frontera as one of the best universities in Chile, in 11th place at the national and in 84th place at the Latin American level (higher education area), climbing two places up compared to 2016.

The SIR is based on three areas: research (50%), innovation (30%) and social impact (20%). At the general level, the UFRO is in the 78th percentile in research, the 57th percentile in innovation and in the 50th percentile in social impact.
In 2009, the UFRO was in 764th place and in 2017 in the 632nd, climbing 132 places up in 8 years.

Written by: Direction of Communications