We made it to the world’s TOP 500 of THE WUR ranking in humanities
Bratislava, 26 October, 2022: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings has just published its ranking of world universities by subject. In the Arts and Humanities category, Comenius University Bratislava achieved its best rank in the 401st - 500th place band. It is also the best-ranked institution from Slovakia in this subject. Two Czech universities - Charles University and Masaryk University - achieved a better ranking.
In the Clinical and Health subject Comenius University ranked in the 501st-600th place band worldwide, the same position as in the subject of education. In both of these subjects, it is the best-ranked Slovak university. Among Czech schools, only Charles University ranked better in the Clinic and Health subject, sharing the 401st-500th position. In education, Comenius University was only surpassed by Masaryk University which ranked 401st-500th. Comenius University shares the rank band with Charles University and Palacký University in Olomouc.
Other ranked subjects included Business and Economics (601st-800th), Computer Science (601st-800th), Life Sciences (801st-1000th), Physical Sciences (801st-1000th) and Social Sciences (801st+). Our university was ranked in eight out of the eleven evaluated subjects, where it met qualification criteria (e.g. minimum number of published papers in a period).
Comenius University is the only Slovak university which regularly appears in all prominent rankings. It reached the 651st-700th place in QS World University Rankings. In the Round University Ranking, it ranked 426th overall and 178th in the education category. In ARWU ranking (Shanghai ranking) it placed in the 701st-800th place band. It is currently 630th in the CWUR ranking. The prestigious Best Global Universities ranking ranks it 639th overall, and 266th in physics. The SCImago ranking lists it in 573rd place. In the NTU Ranking (National Taiwan University Rankings) it is ranked 701st-750th, while in the subject of physics it is ranked 301st-350th worldwide. It ranks 284th in The Three University Missions MosIUR, and THE Impact Rankings puts it in the 601st-800th place band. THE WUR ranking puts Comenius University in the 1001st - 1200th place band overall. World University Ranking RankPro ranks it in the 260th place.