• In the release of September 15^th, the well-known QS World University Rankings show that Universidad de Santiago de Chile has consolidated its position as the third best university of the country.

The prestigious QS World University Rankings that evaluate the 900 best universities worldwide released the 2015-2016 report on September 15^th. In this release, Universidad de Santiago de Chile keeps the position that it reached last year and consolidates its third place nationwide, behind Universidad Católica De Chile and Universidad de Chile, but above Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Universidad de Concepción, among others.

Universidad de Santiago, led by Dr Juan Manuel Zolezzi, keeps in the 451-460 rank of the QS World University Rankings. The survey highlighted some aspects of Universidad de Santiago, a public and state higher education institution, like Employer Reputation that ranked the 187^th place in the overall world ranking, and Academic Reputation, that ranked the 220^th place in the overall world ranking.

In South America, Universidad de Buenos Aires ranked the first place. It climbed 74 places in comparison to the previous survey and it is now in the 124^th position in the overall world ranking. In this regional sub division, Universidad de Santiago de Chile ranked the 14^th place.

Translated by Marcela Contreras