CATBALOGAN CITY, Philippines — Samar State University (SSU) ranked 2nd in Eastern Visayas, 57th in the Philippines, and 7493rd in the 2025 edition of EduRank ratings. SSU’s ranking is based on three (3) factors, including research output, non-academic reputation, and the impact of notable alumni.
The University ranked 37th for liberal arts and social sciences in the Philippines and 6120th in the world with 252 publications made and 1,525 citations received. The main topics of SSU research under this area include political science, law, sociology, philosophy, and history.
Along with Environmental Science, SSU ranked 42nd in the Philippines and 6151st in the world with 187 publications made and 831 citations received. The University’s main research topics in this area focus on geography and cartography, ecology, and geology.
Meanwhile, for Medicine, SSU ranked 31st in the Philippines and 5850th in the world with 163 publications made and 1,367 citations received. SSU’s main research topics in this field include health science and pathology.
SSU also ranked high in the field of psychology, ranking 33rd in the Philippines and 5632nd in the world with 137 publications made and 1,146 citations received. Along this field, SSU’s research focus on education majors and social psychology.
Furthermore, the University ranked 43rd for Mathematics in the Philippines and 5816th in the world with 120 publications made and 503 citations received. The main research topics along this expertise are emphasized on mathematics teachers and statistics.
For Business and Economics, the University ranked 30th in the Philippines for both fields and 5559th and 5469th in the world, respectively. With 111 publications made and 682 citations received, SSU emphasizes management topics along with business. Moreover, with 93 publications made and 545 citations received, SSU’s focus on economics highlights development studies.
The University has maintained its rank as the second highest rated higher education institution (HEI) in Eastern Visayas since 2021 and its national rank in the 48th-71st bracket since it joined the EduRank’s ranking roster.
EduRank.org is an independent metric-based ranking of 14,131 universities from 183 countries. It uses the world’s largest scholarly papers database with 115,295,786 scientific publications and 2,964,008,315 citations to rank universities across 246 research topics.