U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings

Palacký University has already appeared in the U. S. News Best Global Universities Rankings in 2014, placing at #488. In 2015, UP stepped up to the 473rd position. Only three Czech universities represented the country in the 2014 rankings, while in 2015 four made the grade.

In 2016 Palacký University achieved the 494th position, but since the previous year, another 250 universities had been put on the list, and even the monitored indicators had changed. In the national comparison, UP had stepped up one position and was the second after Charles University. From the Czech Republic only six universities made it to the top 1000.

There are 2,000 universities in the most recent rankings released in 2022, 250 more than last year. Out of the 2,165 institutions from more than 90 countries, Palacký University was ranked 611th, and 253rd in the European ranking. Within the Czech Republic, Palacký University is ranked 3rd, behind the second Masaryk University and the first Charles University.

In the Subject Rankings, UP was included in 7 fields, and in two of them it was ranked for the first time. These are Ecology and Physical Chemistry. Other subjects in which it has been ranked in previous years are Biology and Biochemistry, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Physics and Botany and Zoology.

The rankings are based on data and metrics provided by Clarivate Analytics InCitesTM (previously Thomson Reuters) research analytics solutions as well as on data submitted by the universities themselves. The top universities rankings employ 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and international collaboration. Similarly to the THE rankings, the “reputation survey” - the opinions and evaluations of academics from all over the world - is also taken into account.

Comparison of Czech Universities in the U.S. News Rankings

U.S. News - Best Global Universities Rankings

2020 (published 2019)

2021 (published 2020)

2022 (published 2021)

2023 (published 2022)

Charles University in Prague

210

210

218

226

Masaryk University in Brno

577

555

568

605

Palacký University Olomouc

519

529

568

611

Czech Technical University in Prague

465

516

596

698

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

1003

1030

1007

930

University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

904

941

1024

1013

Brno University of Technology

921

1068

1077

1060

Mendel University in Brno

1228

1288

1286

1291

University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

1144

1187

1254

1344

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

1390

-

1607.

1449

University of Ostrava

-

1339

1416

1542

VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava

1333

1452

1525

1589

University of Pardubice

1471

-

-

1903

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