CU REMAINS IN THE TOP 300 UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE
Bratislava, January 28th 2026: Comenius University Bratislava (CU) has maintained its position among the 300 best universities in Europe. Published today, the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2026 place CU 293rd overall, first in Slovakia, and 19th in Eastern Europe.
The best universities in Europe are Oxford University, ETH Zurich, Imperial College, and UCL in London. Alongside CU, ten other Slovak universities were ranked.
The QS World University Rankings: Europe 2026 evaluates universities across twelve indicators with varying weights, such as Academic Reputation (30%), Employer Reputation (15%), International Research Network (10%), Sustainability (5%), and others.
The QS World University Rankings: Europe is one of the newest rankings, evaluating European universities since 2023. This year, on January 21, 2026, it published a list of the 958 top higher education institutions from 42 locations across Europe.
Times Higher Education (THE) recently published its World University Rankings 2026 by Subject including 11 major subjects. The international ranking, which evaluates 148 individual disciplines, included CU in 10 of them:
Arts and Humanities: 601.–800.
Business and Economics: 801.–1000.
Medical and Health (formerly Clinical and Health): 801.–1000.
Computer Science: 801.–1000.
Education Studies (formerly Education): 601.–800.
Law: 301.–400.
Life Sciences: 801.–1000.
Physical Sciences: 1001.–1250.
Psychology: 501.–600.
Social Sciences: 801.–1000.
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Comenius University Bratislava is the only Slovak university to appear in all major global university rankings. In QS World University Rankings 2026, it placed 684th. In the 2025 Round University Ranking, it ranked 475th. CU took 739th place in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) 2025, placing it among the top 3.5% of universities worldwide. The ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) placed it in the 901–1000 band. In Best Global Universities, it ranked 806th globally and 299th in Physics. In SCImago, it ranked 3327th. In the NTU Ranking (National Taiwan University Rankings), it placed in the 951st–1000th place band overall, and 351st–400th in Physics. In The Three University Missions MosIUR 2024, it ranked 257th. THE Impact Rankings placed it in the 601st–800th place band. THE WUR ranked CU in the 1201st–1500th place band. RankPro World University Ranking placed it 181st. In the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), CU ranks 301st–400th in Physics and 401st–500th in Psychology. In QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025, CU is in the 601st–650th place band in Medicine and 601st–675th in Physics. In QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026, it ranks in a shared 824th position.