ELTE is the best Hungarian university according to a new study

According to the ARWU Ranking, Eötvös Loránd University is the best Hungarian higher education institution.

ELTE is the best university

The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) has moved up one category to the prestigious 501-600th place in the ARWU World University Ranking. This makes ELTE the absolute best university in Hungary according to the ranking.

Apart from ELTE, three Hungarian universities made the list. Semmelweis University was the second best higher education institution in Hungary, finishing in the 601-700 category. The third place was taken by the University of Szeged in the 701-800 category. While the last Hungarian university to make the list, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, came in at 901-1000.

In the global ranking, the top three places were all occupied by US universities. Harvard came first, Stanford second and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) third. The top non-US university, Cambridge, came fourth.

The ARWU system

The ARWU started to establish the world ranking of universities in 2003. The list is based on set of objective indicators and third-party data. ARWU has been recognised as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy league table.

ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, the number of Highly Cited Researchers and articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index based on data in the Web of Science, and per capita performance. More than 2500 universities are ranked by ARWU, and the best 1000 universities are published, shanghairanking.com writes.