The Jagiellonian University is 395th in The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). The other Polish universities in the ranking are the University of Warsaw (427th) and the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (627th). Americans dominate the ranking, with Harvard University at the forefront.
Eight universities from the United States are in the top 10. Their high position has not changed since the beginning of the ranking in 2012.
Podium places were taken by: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University. Two British universities are in the fourth and fifth places: the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. They are followed by Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Yale University and the University of Chicago. The top was nearly identical in the previous several editions of the ranking.
The second 10 - in addition to universities from the United States - includes the Japanese University of Tokyo and the French Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres. The British University College London closes the second 10.
CWUR analyses data on 21 thousand universities around the world; the best 2,000 are included in the ranking. 40 Polish universities and research institutes are included in this group.
Among them the highest, 395th place went to the Jagiellonian University. A little further, in the 427th place, is the University of Warsaw. The AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków is 627th, the Warsaw University of Technology took 754th place, and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences - 775th place. The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań is 856th, and the National Center for Nuclear Research is 869th. The University of Wrocław (937th) is the last Polish university In the first thousand.
Among the Polish medical universities, the Medical University of Wrocław has the highest, 895th place. Another Polish medical university, the Medical University of Warsaw, took 916th place.
Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is the only global universities ranking that is based on data collected independently by the center. Most of the world rankings are based on surveys and data sent by universities, we read in the Medical University of Warsaw press release, in which the university informed about its result.
CWUR is created on the basis of the following criteria: education (based on the academic success of a university’s alumni), employability (based on the professional success of a university’s alumni), faculty (measured by the number of faculty members who have received top academic distinctions), research output (measured by the total number of research articles), high-quality publications (measured by the number of research articles appearing in top-tier journals), influence (measured by the number of research articles appearing in highly-influential journals), citations (measured by the number of highly-cited research articles).
The ranking was created in Saudi Arabia, and from 2016 the headquarters of the Center for World University Rankings is located in the United Arab Emirates.
The ranking results are available on the website. (PAP)
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