Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

The Shanghai Ranking

The ARWU ranking is the oldest international university ranking, first published in 2003. It was originally produced by Shanghai University and since 2009 it has been published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy company. It is focussed mainly on the academic and research levels of the universities, using a different methodology than THE World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings. For evaluating world universities, it takes into account six indicators, including the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science and the number of articles cited. In addition, it also takes into account the number of cited researchers in the Highly Cited Researchers database and the number of Nobel prize-winners affiliated with a given institution.

Palacký University entered the ARWU for the first time in 2017 and was ranked 601st to 700th. Although the ranking has already recorded 1000 universities since 2018, Olomouc University managed to reach its best position in 2019 and 2020, namely 501st-600th place. Then, in 2021 and 2022, the University of Olomouc dropped to the 701st-800th position, having fallen out of the list of universities that have a highly cited researcher in their department according to the Clarivate Analytics list. However, in the latest edition for 2023, Palacký University managed to improve its position by 100 places (to 601st-700th place) when it returned to the list.

In addition to the global rankings, university rankings in 55 subjects in the natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences were published, and more than 1,900 universities from 104 countries were included in the final rankings. Palacký University was among the top five hudred in five fields (physics, chemistry, ecology, materials science and engineering, nanosciences and nanotechnology) and was the only university from the Czech Republic succeeding in the field of materials science and engineering this year.

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Charles University in Prague

201-300

201-300

201-300

301-400

301-400

Masaryk University in Brno

601-700

601-700

601-700

400-500

401-500

Palacký University Olomouc

501-600

501-600

701-800

701-800

601-700

Czech University of Life Sciences

901-1000

801-900

801-900

801-900

601-700

Brno University of Technology

-

-

701-800

901-1000

701-800

Czech Technical University in Prague

701-800

701-800

801-900

800-900

801-900

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