Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics advances in the XIX Ranking Studiów Prawniczych!
Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław moved to the second position in the XIX Ranking Studiów Prawniczych made by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. However, in the ‘staff’ category, the Faculty took first place in Poland!
We only scored 2.6 points less than the leader, the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University. JU scored 105.70 points, UWr 103.10, whereas the University of Warsaw, the last of the top three, scored 102.70 points.
DGP’s Rank is the oldest and most prestigious overview of this kind in Poland. Gazeta Prawna makes separate lists for public and private universities.
There were no changes in the top three list of private universities. The leader, once again, is Lazarski University. Second place is taken by Kozminski University, and third place is taken by Kujawy and Pomorze University in Bydgoszcz.
Faculties of law are evaluated in accordance with many diverse indicators in four categories: staff, quality and strength of education, requirements that students must meet and quality of graduates, as well as legal training passing rate. Our Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics was the first in the ‘staff’ category.
As dr. hab. Jacek Przygodzki, prof. UWr, dean of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics comments: “I am glad that the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław is one of the leaders in universities’ ranks. The credit for this goes to our research-educational staff and it was represented in this year’s Dziennik Gazeta Prawna rank. The overview is based on plenty of evaluation criteria of conducting studies in law schools, which makes us even more proud of the second place in the overall rank and the first one in ‘staff’ category.” “Thanks to the experienced staff members the Faculty is able to construct and execute modern teaching programs, which include, for example, recently opened Virtual Reality room, University Legal Clinic, or court trial simulations. Brilliant and active lawyers-practitioners attract the most talented students,” he adds.
Methodology of the rank
In the ‘staff’ category, in which a university could score a maximum of 31 points, universities could collect points in the following categories: the number of recently employed staff members with regard to the overall number of academic staff members (max. 1.5 points), the number of foreign staff members, who teach law students (max. 2 points), the number of students per an academic staff member (max. 6 points), the amount of academic publications (books specifically; by the staff members) regarding the number of staff members (max. 4 points), the amount of other academic publications (by the staff members) regarding the number of staff members (max. 2 points), the amount of received research grants (max. 3.5 points), the amount of academic publications (by the staff members) included in the Scopus database regarding the number of staff members (max. 2 points), the number of professorships granted (max. 4 points), the number of habilitations awarded (max. 3 points) or the involvement of the staff members in the leading government bodies, local authorities and corporations (max. 2 points).
While assessing the quality and conditions of education 22 more categories, with the highest possible score of 44.5 points, were considered, among which were the ability to award habilitation (max. 7 points), the ability to award a doctoral degree (max. 5 points), foreign law schools functioning (max. 3 points), law clinics functioning (max. 2 points), the amount of international conferences (physically and online) organized by the faculty (max. 3.5 points), the number of computer stations with INFORLEX program (or other, similar) per 100 law students (max. 3 points), external awards achieved by the faculty, its staff members and students (max. 2.5 points).
In the ‘requirements that students must meet and quality of graduates’ category a total of 38.5 points could be earned for aspects like graduates’ careers based on the ELA system [the nationwide system for monitoring the economic outcomes of higher education graduates] (max. 8 points), current academic category (max. 4 points), current Polish Accreditation Committee assessment (max. 3 points), the obligation to pass a foreign language exam (max. 3.5 points) or the amount of compulsory courses that end with an exam (max. 2.5 points).
The universities could also achieve a maximum of 10 points in the ‘legal training passing rate’ category.
More about the rank’s methodology on the DGP website.
Congratulations to all staff members, students and doctoral students of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics!
Translated by Gabriela Rutkowska (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
Added by: E.K.
Date of publication: 16.06.2025
