The London based Times Higher Education has recently published the World University Rankings 2015-2016, listing the top 800 universities in the world, including Semmelweis University. The list contains six Hungarian higher education institutions, out of which Semmelweis University ranked between 501 and 600, thus being the best of the six.
The ranking compares institutions based on the results of five areas: teaching, research, citation, industry income and international outlook. Semmelweis University had the best results in the field of international outlook thanks to the high ratio of foreign students and teachers and the outstanding number of publications deriving from international co-operations.
Data from 1 126 institutions have been collected, 11.3 million scientific theses have been studied and 11 000 questionnaires sent out to different scientific institutions have been analysed in order to set up the Times Higher Education ranking. Editor Phil Baty said that the ranking has been published 12 times so far and it belongs to the most well-known and most prestigious rankings of the world. The evaluation of data related to education, research, knowledge-transfer and internationalisation is based on strict standards. He added that Semmelweis University’s achievement to rank between the 501st and 600th places is outstanding.
All together, there are 345 European institutions included in the list, and the first three places are taken by the California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford and Stanford University respectively. The other Hungarian universities, which occupy places between 601st and 800th are the University of Debrecen, Budapest University of Technology and Science, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Pécs and the University of Szeged.
Pálma Dobozi
Photo: Attila Kovács, Semmelweis University
Translated by: Ágnes Raubinek
