2015 Best Universities in Latin America
Our rankings of the 2015 Best Universities in Latin America are based exclusively on factors actual college freshmen said were most important to their college decision. According to the most recent nationwide survey published by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA , these factors include academic reputation, financial aid offerings, overall cost, and success of graduates in the post-college job market. Each of these factors were weighted equally in our ranking and data was derived from a variety of publicly available sources, including U.S. News & World Report , the National Center for Education Statistics , Teaching, Research, Citation Flow, Industry Income, International Outlook, Referring Domains, Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, and Trust Flow.
1 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2 University of the Andes, Colombia
3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
4 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
5 State University of Campinas, Brazil
6 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
7 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
8 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
9 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
10 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
11 Universidad de Chile, Chile
12 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
13 Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
14 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
15 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
16 Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
17 CINVESTAV, Mexico
18 Universidade Federal do Paraná Brazil
19 Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
20 Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile
21 Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
22 Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
23 Universidad de Concepción, Chile
24 Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
25 Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
26 Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
27 Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
28 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
29 Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
30 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina