Wrocław University of Science and Technology has been rated among the best universities in the world – according to The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the so-called Shanghai ranking. It was classified in places 901-1000, taking the third position among Polish technical universities (together with the Warsaw University of Technology).
The results of The Academic Ranking of World Universities were first published in 2003. Since 2009 it has been run by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. This year, over 2,000 world universities were compared, and the published list includes the top 1,000 universities
Universities are rated according to six academic or research performance indicators, including alumni and staff who received Nobel prizes and Fields Medals, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and articles indexed in major citation indexes.
