The Faculty of Medicine still leads the area list ranking of medical and health sciences training programmes in the 2019 Higher Education Rankings produced and published by HVG Weekly. Semmelweis remains in fourth place according to the country’s overall institutional ranking, and according to faculty rankings, its Faculty of Medicine places third.
The Faculty of Medicine leads the ranking area list measured by student and professor excellence in the medical and health sciences training programmes. Aspects taken into consideration for the area list ranking include the average number of professors having obtained a scientific degree, the average application score of the successful candidates who applied to the programme, and the number of students who had won a high-school competition. On the basis of student excellence, the Faculty of Dentistry ranks fourth and the Faculty of Health Sciences ranks fifth in the training programme area list, with the latter achieving a high score in regards to number of applicants. On the basis of professor excellence, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences ranks fifth; the faculty also has the highest number of professors who are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, while the Faculty of Health and Public Administration ranks twelfth.
According to the country’s faculty rankings, Semmelweis’ Faculty of Medicine places third, behind Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Sciences. Based on HVG’s overall instititutional ranking, Semmelweis holds onto its fourth place ranking, tied this year with Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Eötvös Loránd University ranks first again this year, followed by the University of Szeged as second, and the University of Debrecen as third.
The HVG ranking published in the brochure entitled Diploma 2019 is based on Univ-Press rankings. Like every year, the publishers of the brochure curated the lists based on the excellence of professors and students. In addition to the number and proportion of qualified instructors, factors also taken into consideration include the proportion of professors that are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the proportion of professors having obtained a scientific degree within each faculty of the institution. Student excellence was measured by application and score data.
Pálma Dobozi
Photo: Attila Kovács – Semmelweis University
Translation: Faye Gillespie
