According to the ranking, our university is also the second best Polish medical university. It gives way only to the Wroclaw Medical University (8th place in the ranking of national universities) by 0.1 points.
Which universities were on the podium
On the podium of the list were again three American universities: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.
The ranking included 41 Polish universities and research institutes. Among them, Jagiellonian University (75.7 points), University of Warsaw (75.2 points) and AGH University of Science and Technology (73.1 points) took the highest positions.
Indicators for evaluating the universities
The ranking has been published by The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) since 2012. The methodology is based on the following indicators:
- Quality of education, measured by the number of university’s alumni who have won prestigious academic distinctions relative to the university’s size (25%)
- Alumni employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held top positions at major companies relative to the university's size (25%)
- Academic quality, measured by the number of academics who have won academic distinctions (10%)
- Research:
- Research Output: measured by the total number of research papers (10%)
- High-Quality Publications: measured by the number of research papers appearing in top-tier journals (10%)
- Number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals (10%)
- citations of scientific papers (10%)
The full ranking is available on the CWUR website