T&T UNIVERSITIES SHUT OUT OF WORLD’S TOP

TRINIDAD and Tobago’s universities are not listed among the world’s top 1,497 tertiary institutions.

Neither the University of the West Indies nor the University of Trinidad and Tobago has made it to the comprehensive 2023 QS World University Rankings.

Massachusetts University of Technology (MIT) was listed in first place, followed by University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Stanford University, and Imperial College of London.

National University of Singapore, which placed eight, was the only Asian institution to make it to the top 10.

There are 85 new entrants, with more than half being from Asia.

Bangladesh, with 11 institutions, had the highest representation among the new universities in the listing.

Indonesia was 10 followed by India and Malaysia, with five each.

Canada, where a number of T&T nationals are studying, has three universities in the highest ranking.

They are the University of Toronto (21^st), McGill University (30^th), and University of British Columbia (34^th).

Other Canadian institutions listed included the University of Alberta, the universities of Waterloo, Concordia, McMaster, Dalhousie, Carleton, York, and Simon Fraser.

The management of the University of the West Indies has boasted about being in the top 15 per cent of global universities, and in the top one per cent in Latin America.

But this is not reflected in the highly-regarded international report.