ARWU: Hungarian university in the world’s top 500!

The University of Szeged is in the world’s top 500! This year, Eötvös Loránd University was again ranked 501-600th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, continuing to outperform all Hungarian universities in terms of publication activity.

The best Hungarian universities

In 2023, ELTE was ranked first among Hungarian universities with this result, but this year the University of Szeged – thanks to Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Ferenc Krausz – made a significant leap forward in the Chinese ranking, and thus ranked first among Hungarian universities, in the 401-500th range.

The main building of the University of Szeged. Photo: FB/Uni Szeged

Szeged advertised as the best Hungarian university:

Two other Hungarian institutions were among the world’s best, Semmelweis University – also maintaining its ranking from last year – in the 601-700 group, while Budapest University of Technology and Economics – improving one category compared to last year – was ranked in the 801-900 group. As in previous years, ELTE continues to be the best-ranked Hungarian university in the list’s publication performance indicators.

World top ten

The top ten is still shared by the same eight US universities and two UK universities, with Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) taking the top spot, in this order. On the European continent, Paris-Saclay University came first (12th in the world), ETH Zurich in Switzerland second (21st in the world) and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark third (32nd in the world). In Asia, Tsinghua University maintained its position from last year and came 22nd overall.

The ARWU ranking was first published in 2003 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has been produced by an independent organisation, ShanghaiRanking, since 2009. The ranking has been recognised by the higher education profession as one of the most reliable assessments for many years. Based on a transparent methodology and data collected from external partners, the top 1,000 institutions out of 2,500 surveyed are ranked each year, with indicators including the number of publications and highly cited researchers, the number of academic awards won by former students and current faculty members of the institutions.

For more details on the survey methodology, please visit this page.

The results by country and institution are available on the ShanghaiRanking website, and news on ELTE’s national and international rankings are collected here.

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