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Warsaw School of Economics sixth in the world among business schools in the Webometrics ranking

Photo: PAP 2014/Radek Pietruszka
Photo: PAP 2014/Radek Pietruszka

Warsaw School of Economics is 6th in the world and second in Europe in the Webometrics - Ranking Web of Business Schools. The ranking compiles the university web presence. Three other Polish universities were also in the top twenty.

The results of the ranking were reported by the Warsaw School of Economics spokesman Marcin Poznań in a release sent to PAP. Webometrics Ranking Web of Business Schools presents the web presence of business schools. It is published twice a year. The ranking is a younger version of Webometrics Ranking Web Universities.

Warsaw School of Economics took the 6th place in global Ranking Web of Business Schools. University of Economics in Poznań also has a high, 12th place. In the top 20 there were also Cracow University of Economics (18th place) and Wroclaw University of Economics (19th place). Among the best Polish business schools is also Kozminski University in Warsaw, which took 77th place.

Best turned out to be the American University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, second place went to the Danish Copenhagen Business School, and the third to the Harvard Business School in the US. Better than Warsaw School of Economics were the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy Naval Postgraduate School and the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

The ranking is prepared by Cybermatrics Lab - a research group of the Supreme Council for Scientific Research in Madrid (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC). The Ranking Web of Business Schools surveys over 1,200 business schools and MBA awarding bodies around the world. The authors of the statement is use data on the web presence of universities. The ranking takes into account the number of hits in the Google, visibility via links, the number of shared files in formats .pdf, .doc and .ppt, as well as the number of publications on Google Scholar in 2008-2012.

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