MIDE 2017 – complete list of the best universities in Colombia

However the MEASURE it remains the most detailed resource with which we can get a broad view of higher education. Just as in schools, the ISCE is in charge of evaluating schools with different variables that involve academic quality but also other fronts of great importance such as the well-being of students, the MEASURE It allows to have a consolidated and equitable evaluation of the efforts of HEIs to offer quality higher education. This measurement becomes a complement to be able to discover quality institutions, with good standards, different from those that have High Quality Accreditation, which has only been achieved to date by 44 HEIs nationwide, which represents only 15% of HEIs in the country. The MEASURE then it allows to broaden the panorama, to have more options worth taking in the regions or according to the approach.

With regard to the approach MEASURE classifies institutions into 4 categories:
DOCTORAL APPROACH
MASTERY FOCUS
UNDERGRADUATE EMPHASIS
SPECIALIZED IN AN AREA

This classification gives a fair assessment to the universities, allowing the indicators to be as similar as possible to each institution and its particular characteristics.

The Model of Education Performance Indicators (MIDE) is built taking into account the data from the different information systems that the Ministry has, related to higher education, such as:
National Higher Education Information System (SNIES)
Labor Observatory for Education (OLE)
Higher Education Dropout Prevention System (SPADIES)
Test Results Saber 11th
Results of the ICFES Saber PRO Tests, among others.

In 2017, for its third edition, the model developed two types or measurement groups:
o The MIDE 'U' that evaluates the performance of HEIs that offer undergraduate university programs. This year the tool took into account 174 Higher Education Institutions, of which 48 are public and 127 private.
o The MIDE 'T', which evaluated 149 Higher Education Institutions –some of them also evaluated in the MIDE U–, of which 49 are public and 100 private.
The MIDE offers a definitive list in which it has the general total of the scores and positions of the universities, but it also takes into account, in addition to a regional evaluation, another very specific one to give a fair treatment to the different institutions and it is the focus on which they are concentrated are: doctoral focus, master's focus, undergraduate emphasis and specialized in a particular area.

Below you can find the general list of the universities evaluated in the MIDE U 2017.