Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was among the thousand best universities in the world listed in the Shanghai Ranking. The list includes 11 Polish institutions.

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was ranked in the tenth hundred together with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Warsaw Medical University and the Universities of Technology in Warsaw and Wrocław. The highest ranked universities from Poland – the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw – were ranked in the 401-500 range.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, or Shanghai Ranking, is a list of the best universities in the world. The position in the ranking is determined by a merit-based assessment on the basis of objective indicators: the number of graduates and staff who have received Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of most frequently cited researchers, the number of articles published in the journals ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’ and publications that have been included in selected citation indexes, the university reports.

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