The World University Ranking is one of the three most respected and widely commented on university ranking in the world - next to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (the Shanghai Ranking) and the QS World University Rankings. It includes 980 institutions in 79 countries, which is 5 percent all such institutions in the world.

For the first time in the thirteen-year history of the ranking, the top position has not been taken by a university in the United States, but by the British University of Oxford. The remaining two places on the podium went to California Institute of Technology and Stanford University. In fourth place was the British University of Cambridge. In the top ten are also: the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Princeton University, the British Imperial College London, the Swiss ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and another American college - University of California, Berkeley.

Among colleges classified in the ranking there are nine Polish universities. University of Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology had the highest positions (in the group 501-600). AGH University of Science and technology and Jagiellonian University were in the 601-800 group. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Gdańsk University of Technology, University of Łódź, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Silesia have positions in the 800+ group.

The creators of the rankings, take into account three elements of the universities\' core mission: teaching, research and knowledge transfer and judge universities according to five basic criteria: teaching, international outlook, research, citations and industry income.

The full ranking is available on the website.

PAP - Science and Scholarship in Poland

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