This year’s Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been published. The ranking includes 1000 of the best universities in the world. The University of Warsaw (UW) was ranked in the group of universities in the range 301-400. This is the best result among Polish universities.

ARWU is a prestigious ranking of the best universities in the world, published since 2003. The authors of the Shanghai list take into account several indicators – the number of graduates or employees who received the Nobel Prize or the Fields Medal, the number of authors of the most cited works, the number of articles published in the scientific journals “Nature” and “Science”, as well as data on the university’s publication output.

In this year’s ranking, over 2,000 universities were assessed, 1,000 of which were included in the ranking. Among Polish universities, were selected the University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University (401-500), the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (701-800) and the University of Adama Mickieiwcza in Poznań (801-900), Gdańsk University of Technology (801-900), Warsaw University of Technology (801-900), Medical University of Silesia (901-1000) and Medical University of Warsaw (901-1000).