The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2022-23

The Center for World University Rankings has published this year's eleventh edition of its ranking of world universities. On the list of top 2,000 universities in the world, out of nearly 18 thousand, 39 universities from Poland were listed. 

Since 2012. The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only academic ranking of the world's universities that evaluates the quality of education, employability, faculty and research, not based on surveys or data submitted by universities. The ranking began as a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to rank the top 100 universities in the world. It was quickly covered by universities and media around the world and received many requests to expand it. In 2019, the ranking has been expanded to include the top 2,000 of nearly twenty thousand universities worldwide, making it the largest academic ranking of global universities.

Ranking Methodology

CWUR publishes the only academic ranking of the world's universities that assesses educational quality, graduate employment, faculty quality, and research performance without relying on surveys or data submitted by universities.
CWUR uses seven indicators grouped into four areas to rank the world's universities:

1. Education: based on the academic success of university graduates, measured by the number of graduates who have earned prestigious academic honors relative to the size of the university (25%).
2. Employability: based on the career success of college graduates and measured by the number of graduates who have taken top positions at large companies relative to the size of the college (25%).
3. Faculty: measured by the number of faculty members who have earned prestigious academic honors (10%)
4. Research:
   1. Research output: measured by the total number of research papers (10%)
   2. High quality publications: measured by the number of research papers published in top ranked journals (10%)
   3. Impact: measured by the number of research papers appearing in high impact journals (10%)
   4. Citations: measured by the number of highly cited research papers (10%).

Ranking results

This year, 19788 institutions participated in the ranking, and those that ranked in the top tier were included in CWUR's Global 2000 ranking list.
For the eleventh consecutive year, Harvard is the top university in the world according to the Global 2000 list compiled by the Center for World University Rankings. This year's global top 10 universities are as follows (last year's position is shown in parentheses):
1. Harvard University (1)
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)
3. Stanford University (3)
4. Cambridge University (4)
5. University of Oxford (5)
6. Princeton University (6)
7. University of Chicago (8)
8. Columbia University (7)
9. University of Pennsylvania (9)
10. California Institute of Technology (11)

The United States has eight representatives in the top 10, which has been the case since the ranking began in 2012, and is the most represented country in the top 10 with 335 universities. Harvard, Stanford and MIT are the most cited universities in the world. 

Polish universities in the ranking

In this year's edition of the ranking 39 universities from Poland were classified. The best university from Poland was Jagiellonian University, second place was taken by Warsaw University and third place by AGH University of Science and Technology. Overall, Polish universities took places from 381 to 1922 out of 2000 classified universities.  Among medical universities the highest score was awarded to Warsaw Medical University - it took 917th place. Wroclaw Medical University took 926th place. The most distant place among Polish universities took the University of Rzeszow - with position number 1867. The same university, however, takes 39th position in the national ranking.

More about the ranking: https://cwur.org/

Source: CWUR, PAP