Times Higher Education’s recently published, 2026 Medical and Health ranking features 1,230 universities from 102 countries around the world. Semmelweis University has been ranked in the 176-200 range, moving up twenty places from its 2025 position to become the 186th best in the world in its subject area.
The university has managed to improve in almost all key indicators, most significantly in research quality and teaching, but it has also achieved higher scores in industry and research environment. Among many other things, the citation rate of the university’s scientific publications, as well as the reputation and excellence of our research have continued to increase.
“Our continuous, persistent, and high-quality work is slowly but surely bearing fruit. The current results show that we are moving in the right direction and getting closer to our goal of becoming one of the world’s 100 best universities,” said Rector Dr. Béla Merkely. As he added:
We are proud that Semmelweis University ranks highest in its field not only nationally but also in the Central and Eastern European region, and that it is considered the largest medical and health sciences training institution in Europe after Charles University in Prague in terms of student numbers.
Among Hungarian universities offering medical and health sciences education, the University of Pécs ranks in the 401-500, while the University of Debrecen and the University of Szeged in the 501-600 range. The top three institutions in the world ranking are the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University.
Pálma Dobozi
Translation: Dr. Balázs Csizmadia
Photo by Boglárka Zellei – Semmelweis University; featured image: Valter Berecz
