(UPDATE) ATENEO de Manila University (AdMU) was the top Philippine university in the 2024 Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, although its ranking has dropped significantly from last year.

From 84th place, AdMU slid down to 401-500th place this year, followed by De La Salle University (DLSU) and University of the Philippines (UP), which shared 501st to 600th place.

It was also a significant decline for UP, which ranked 201-250th place in 2023.

The University of Santo Tomas made the Times ranking for the first time, joining Mapua University in the 601+ place ranking.

Several state universities and colleges also participated in the ranking as "reporters," or schools that were active in the ranking process despite being unranked.

They are Cebu Technological University, Central Luzon State University, Mariano Marcos State University, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, Tarlac Agricultural University, University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, and Visayas State University.

Commenting on the ranking of DLSU, Vice President for Research and Innovation Raymond Tan said that research universities "contribute to national interest and to global aspirations by advancing the state of human knowledge."

"International rankings give us a yardstick to see how we measure up to such expectations," Tan added.

Tsinghua University, Peking University, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and the University of Tokyo emerged as the top five Asian universities for this year.

Among the top 100 schools in the list, mainland China schools dominated with 33 universities, followed by South Korea with 16.

Japanese universities were the most represented this year with 119 universities, followed by India with 19.

The Times Higher Education judges universities across all their core missions — teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook — to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available.

This year, it introduced significant updates to the original methodology, while using the same 18 performance indicators as the World University Rankings.

A total of 739 universities across 31 countries from Asia participated in the ranking.