The THE Rankings 2019 report places the UFRO in seventh place in Chile and in first place among regional state universities.

The level of quality at the Universidad de La Frontera has been acknowledged again in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, in which the UFRO is in seventh place among the Chilean universities in general and in first place among the Chilean regional state universities. In the Latin-American context, it is placed in the range 61-70.

This ranking is one of the most prestigious ones, and for its report 2019, Times Higher Education judged more than 1200 research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Therefore, they use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons.

In the general ranking, the UFRO is placed in the range 801-1000, the same one than in 2017. Regarding the details, our institution climbed up in almost all items, with an important increase in Research and Citation Impact, while another one of the best valued fields was International Outlook, in which it classified in the fifth decile.
Regarding the item Teaching, you can observe a decrease of almost two points, what could mainly be explained by the results of the annual reputation survey conducted among a group of academics who are participating in the ranking.

INSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE

With the aim of a better positioning of the Universidad de La Frontera in these external measurements, the university is planning a committee whose main role would be the analysis of new institutional strategies for impacting in the quality ranking.

The idea of this committee, which will consist of UFRO academics and professionals, will focus on finding new ways of addressing these rankings. Therefore, they will specialize on understanding the methods of measuring the objective and perceived (reputation) university quality, in order to choose a comprehensive institutional strategy, which would start in 2019 in order to see its impacts in two to six years from now.

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