Espiritu Santo University stands out as the only university in Ecuador to obtain 5 stars from QS Stars, a rating system for higher education institutions, which evaluates them based on a variety of performance indicators in several categories.
The QS Stars higher education ranking system, a globally recognized international English ranking system, was launched in 2009 as a way to evaluate institutions in categories as well as for overall institutional performance. QS Stars allows institutions to publicly highlight their areas of strength in order to recognize and improve areas of weakness.
UEES is considered a university with: high quality teaching with innovative methodology, high employability ratios (UEES graduates work in their fields of study and are excellent professionals), high level of online education, inclusiveness and projects with social impact.
The categories evaluated to obtain a total of 5 stars were:
Only 5 universities in Latin America have 5 stars among which are: Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia), Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) and Universidad Espíritu Santo (Ecuador) among the 16 worldwide.
