Seven years in the international ranking of time higher education

The Times Higher Education has published its 2023 World University Rankings, which cover more than 1,700 institutions in 104 countries. Again, this year, the ranking looked at the quality of teaching and research, knowledge transfer, internationalization and industry revenue at universities across 13 indicators. Read more about the methodology in English on this page.

Eleven universities from Hungary were among the top, with Eötvös Loránd University coming in second after Semmelweis University (201-250). ELTE has maintained its position in the 601-800 category of the THE ranking for seven years running. This year, it has joined the ranks of organizations like bo Akademi University, University of Granada, University of Graz, Jagiellonian University, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and NOVA University of Lisbon.

The University of Debrecen, the University of Budapest, the University of Pécs, and the University of Szeged are in the 1001-1200 category, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Corvinus, the Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and the University of Pannonia are in the 1201-1500 category. The University of Miskolc closes the list in the 1500+ category. Despite providing data for the survey, the University of Sopron and István Széchenyi were not among the top 1,500 universities in the world.

The world’s top three universities were, in order, Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Cambridge. Three institutions from the United Kingdom, including Imperial College London, and seven from the United States make up the top ten. The best university on the European continent was Switzerland’s ETH Zurich (ranked 11th), while in Asia, Chinghua University in Beijing was ranked 17th.

The United States remains the dominant player in the higher education sector. Still, Chinese universities, for example, are catching up with Anglo-Saxon institutions in terms of citations, as reported by THE. This is due to the Chinese government’s allocation of significant resources to R&D&I for two decades. However, THE’s assessment highlights a decline in Asian universities’ internationalization.

THE WUR 2023 results are available on the organization’s website, broken down by assessment criteria, subjects taught, countries and regions. ELTE has consistently been among the highest-ranked universities in national and international rankings; see the summary below.

Source: elte.hu