University is the only private institution in the south of the country among Brazil's top 15 institutions
PUCRS ranks among the 15 best universities of Brazil, according to the recently published QS World University Ranking. Besides, the University is the only private institution from the south of Brazil, and one of the country’s top 3 private institutions, to be in the list, which includes around 1,000 institutions all over the world.
The list, which is published every year by British company QS relies on five performance indicators: academic reputation (40% of final score), employer reputation (10% of final score), faculty/student ratio (20% of final score), citations per faculty (20% of final score) and internationalization (10% of final score). 75,000 students and more than 40,000 market professionals contributed to the list. Find out more.