The National University Autonomous of Honduras, top 5 in Central America

By Bufete Mejía & Asociados

 The QS World University Rankings 2022 ranked the National University Autonomous of Honduras (UNAH) as the fifth best in Central America.

“The UNAH is the leading institution in the Honduran higher education, fulfilling with a strong commitment in the academia, research, science, culture and development of the country”, the ranking stated.

UNAH was founded in 1847 to lead and develop the higher education in Honduras. With over 165 years of service, it is the guiding body in the public and private higher education.

The university has a network of eight Regional Centers, five Telecenters and eight Learning Resource Centers in Distance Learning (CRAED) which allows to promote the Honduran ethnic and  cultural diversity in the teaching of higher education programs. The UNAH offers 112 university degrees distributed in undergraduate, postgraduate and technical studies.

In terms of research, the UNAH through the Directorate of Scientific Research and Postgraduate, promotes the management, training, promotion, publication, dissemination and communication of the research in all its faculties at the national level.

The QS World University Rankings uses six simple metrics to capture university performance:

1. Academic Reputation
2. Employer Reputation
3. Faculty/Student Ratio
4. Citations per faculty
5. International Faculty Ratio
6. International Student Ratio