Top Universities in Ecuador

37 universities in Ecuador with a measured position, 37 of them ranked worldwide.

#UniversityCityWorld rankCitations
1 Universidad San Francisco de Quito #0 372,932
2 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador #0 195,117
3 Escuela Politécnica Nacional #0 176,974
4 Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral #0 159,730
5 Universidad de Cuenca #0 140,674
6 Escuela Politécnica del Ejercito #0 104,326
7 Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja #0 103,745
8 Universidad Central del Ecuador #0 90,382
9 Universidad Politécnica Salesiana #0 69,647
10 Universidad de Guayaquil #0 66,443
11 Universidad de Especialidades del Espíritu Santo #0 64,374
12 Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial #0 63,749
13 Universidad Técnica de Manabí #0 50,040
14 Universidad Técnica de Ambato #0 49,057
15 Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil #0 47,345
16 Universidad del Azuay #0 40,344
17 Universidad Católica de Cuenca #0 38,961
18 Universidad Nacional de Loja #0 35,075
19 Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica #0 30,383
20 Universidad Técnica de Machala #0 28,272
21 Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo #0 25,440
22 Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo #0 25,128
23 Universidad Internacional del Ecuador #0 24,417
24 Universidad Técnica del Norte #0 23,567
25 Universidad Laica "Eloy Alfaro" de Manabi #0 22,021
26 Universidad Santa María Campus Guayaquil #0 18,173
27 Universidad Técnica de Esmeraldas "Luis Vargas Torres" #0 10,263
28 Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi #0 9,215
29 Universidad Internacional SEK #0 8,015
30 Universidad Agraria del Ecuador #0 7,723
31 Universidad Estatal de Bolívar #0 7,477
32 Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo #0 6,343
33 Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar #0 2,696
34 Universidad Laica "Vicente Rocafuerte" de Guayaquil #0 1,720
35 Universidad Casa Grande #0 1,509
36 Universidad Tecnologica Israel #0 1,332
37 Universidad de Especialidades Turísticas #0 282

What the two columns mean

World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.

The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.

Rankings in other countries

USA 981 ranked Japan 337 ranked India 306 ranked China 283 ranked South Korea 170 ranked Brazil 164 ranked Iran 160 ranked Indonesia 143 ranked Mexico 134 ranked France 108 ranked Poland 106 ranked Germany 103 ranked