This year, the prestigious list of the best universities in the world – QS World University Ranking – included 16 Polish universities. The best of them was Jagiellonian University, ranked 338th in the world.
Last year, 14 Polish universities were included in the ranking.
According to the latest ranking, the best university in Poland is Jagiellonian University (it moved from 411th to 338th place in the world compared to last year). The University of Warsaw can also boast of being promoted: last year it occupied position 394; in this edition of the ranking – in 349th place.
Warsaw Polytechnic University also improved its position in the ranking: this year it is in the top ten, between 521st and 530th place. last year he was in the seventh hundred (places between 601st and 650th).
In addition, the remaining 13 Polish universities occupy 9th and 10th places (places 801-1000): University of… A. Mickiewicza in Poznań, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Krakow University of Technology, University of Technology of Gdańsk, Lodz University of Technology, University of Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, University of Łódź, University of Wrocław, Poznań University of Technology, University of Gdańsk, University of Silesia, Warsaw University of Life Sciences and University of science and technology in Wrocław.
QS traditionally dominates this year’s rankings the universities The Americans, who occupy the first three positions. The best was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), followed by Stanford University and Harvard University. Just behind the podium was the British University of Oxford.
The QS World University Ranking is prepared by the British company Quacquarelli Symmonds, which publishes publications on education and study abroad. It is one of the four most important global education rankings, alongside the Times Higher Education, Shanghai Ranking and U-Multirank. This year, around 1,000 universities participated.
The ranking is based on six criteria: reputation in the academic community, prestige among employers, the ratio between the number of professors and the number of students, the number of citations and the number of foreign students and employees. . Each year, Quacquarelli Symmonds publishes three separate rankings assessing: the university’s overall activities, scientific areas and areas of study.
