After years of rotating in first place, Kraków’s Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw have been ranked joint top for the first time in Poland’s annual university league table.
The Jagiellonian received a marginally higher score (100) than the University of Warsaw (99.6). But Perspektywy, the education magazine that compiles the table, grants universities the same ranking if the difference in their score is lower than 0.5.
The rivals have taken the top two places in the ranking every year since it was launched in 2000, with the University of Warsaw grabbing top spot from the Jagiellonian last year.
Source: Perspektywy
Third place was taken by the Warsaw University of Technology, with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków tied in fourth.
They were followed by Gdańsk University of Science and Technology, the Medical University of Warsaw in seventh position and Wrocław University of Science and Technology in eighth.
Poznan University of Technology recorded the biggest rise in the ranking, moving up from 23rd place last year to 12th this time. Among non-public universities, the best position was occupied by the Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw, which ranked 16th overall.
Poland's top two universities have risen to their highest ever positions in the prestigious QS @WorldUniRanking.
The University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University have broken into the global top 300 for the first time https://t.co/hC9WNjNF61
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) June 9, 2022
The league table considers 30 indicators grouped into seven criteria, including prestige, graduate profile, research potential, innovation, scientific efficiency, teaching conditions and internationalisation.
Individual degree programmes are also ranked, with the University of Warsaw taking first place for 22 subjects, followed by Warsaw University of Technology (15 programmes) and the Jagiellonian University (11 programmes).
However, on a global scale Polish universities do not rank very highly. In the QS World University Ranking, only one, the University of Warsaw, currently appears among the top 300. In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, no Polish institutions even make the top 300.
Ten Polish universities are among among the best 1000 in the world – two more than last year – according to the latest @ShanghaiRanking https://t.co/DWZHy8chjj
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) August 17, 2021
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Alicja Ptak is senior editor at Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist. She previously worked for Reuters.
