Shanghai University Ranking: MedUni Vienna among Austria's top 3 universities
Prestigious research-oriented ranking with strong US dominance
In the recently published "Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities", the Medical University of Vienna has once again positioned itself as one of the best universities in Austria, with a ranking of 201-300, making it one of the top 3 universities in the country. The Shanghai Ranking attaches particular importance to research performance.
With a ranking of 101-150, the University of Vienna is the only Austrian university in the top 200, while MedUni Vienna and the University of Innsbruck made it into the top 201-300 universities. The TU Vienna is ranked 301-400.
The Shanghai Ranking is strongly research-oriented and is primarily based on publicly available databases. In each case, 40 percent of the assessment is based on the quality of the scientists at the respective institution (assessed on the basis of the number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners working there and the number of highly cited researchers) and the research output (measured by publications in the journals "Science" and "Nature" as well as citations). Ten percent of the rating is based on the quality of education (measured by the number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners among graduates) and productivity per researcher. More than 1,800 universities recently took part in the ranking.
The current "Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities" continues to be dominated by US universities, which make up 16 of the 20 universities at the top of the ranking. Harvard University was once again named the world's best university, followed by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT (all USA). The best European university is once again the University of Cambridge (UK) in 4th place, followed by Berkeley and - as the second British university in the top 10 - Oxford in 6th place. The best continental European university is once again the University of Paris-Saclay (12th place), followed by ETH Zurich (21st).