• Universidad de Santiago is in the third place nationwide (among thirty in the list, leaving U. de Concepción behind in the 4^th place. Our university is in the 13^th place in Latin America, where the best-ranked institutions are Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. Eight of the top ten international universities in this ranking have strong state government support for their research and teaching tasks.

Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Universidad de Santiago) is in the 13^th place in Latin America  in the 2013 QS Top Universities Ranking  (Latin America University), an international measurement of high prestige.

Compared to others, our university has been  placed under Pontificia Universidad Católica, which ranks 2^nd  in the Latin American ranking, and  Universidad de  Chile (which went down one spot from the 4^th  to the 5^th place), and two places higher than Universidad de Concepción, which was in the 9^th place, in the last ranking, and in the 15^th place  now.

Under U. Concepcion, we can find:  Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, ranked 36th, Universidad Austral de Chile (39^th ), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (40^th ) , and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez , the first national private university in the 45^th place.

As reported by QS, Chile ranked 30th among the top 300 schools in the region.

The ranking, which is led -as in 2012- by  Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil, showed a "relative stability", as reported by QS,  in London.

According to the analysis of those in charge of this international ranking, there was a "slight" performance drop in the case of the Chilean state universities, as a result of the 2011 and 2012 student demonstrations, which probably meant a relative decline in relation to the private universities positions which went up in the ranking.

The QS TOP University Ranking Latin America, ranks the top 300 institutions in the region using seven objective indicators, which include: research, graduate employability, teaching resources and web presence, among others.