8 Hungarian universities ranked among the international elite!

On 29 June, ShanghaiRanking released its 2020 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), and the University of Szeged, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest, Semmelweis University, Szent István University, the University of Debrecen, the University of Pécs, and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have been ranked among the world’s best institutions. According to the evaluation, ELTE became the best Hungarian university in five subjects.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in 2003, and it ranks more than 1,800 universities every year. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers, and the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science.

This year, universities were evaluated according to 54 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The survey took into consideration the number of papers authored by an institution in each field, the ratio of the citations of papers published by an institution, the number of publications that have been found with at least two different countries in addresses of the authors divided by the total number of publications, the number of papers published in top journals, and the total number of the staff of an institution winning a significant award in an academic subject since 1981.

During the last two months, ELTE has achieved impressive results on three global rankings, Lénárd Darázs, the vice-rector for general affairs, told Infostart. SanghaiRanking and its content have been widely cited and employed as a starting point for identifying national strengths and weaknesses. In 2020, the organisation evaluated 4,000 universities from 90 countries, so the fact that six Hungarian universities were included in this prestigious academic ranking is a great achievement in itself.