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Published: May 20, 2020

UT Listed as a Top University for Excellence, Equity and Employability

In its first annual rankings, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global higher education research company and publisher of the “QS World University Rankings,” has named The University of Tampa as a top university for excellence, equity and employability.


UT was evaluated according to four key metric groups: 1) Research, 2) Learning Experience, 3) Diversity and Internationalization, and 4) Employability.

In the rankings, UT was ranked the 11th top university in Florida, and in the 251-300 band nationally. In total, QS has named 300 institutions as the best four-year universities in the U.S.

The QS World University Rankings: USA is designed to assess how well universities are responding to social, intellectual and economic challenges. In seeking to provide both domestic and international students with a highly relevant set of criteria for comparison, QS evaluates universities according to four key metric groups: 1) Research, 2) Learning Experience, 3) Diversity and Internationalization, and 4) Employability.


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