4 Hungarian universities are on the World University Rankings’ list

There are four Hungarian universities on the latest (2015/2016) list of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which was released on Tuesday. The first place is occupied by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and it’s followed by Harvard, and Cambridge.

Among the Hungarian universities, the University of Szeged had the best ranking, according to the composers of the QS Ranking; it got placed to 501-550, improving a couple of places since last year. Eötvös Lóránd University’s and the University of Debrecen’s place did not change; both of them are 601-650. The Corvinus University of Budapest also stayed in the 701+ category.

Quacquarelli Symonds, a London based company, has been composing world university ranking lists yearly since 2004. They are considering six aspects when making the list: the student – teacher ratio, the number of foreign students and teachers, the opinions of the employers, how frequently their works are quoted, and how their academic achievements are regarded by others.