UL: University in the world

The staff of the Faculty of Biological Sciences invites you to an open lecture by prof. Tomas Pinos Figueras, entitled: “Molecular insights into McArdle’s disease. Similarities and differences with other glycogen storage diseases and current therapeutic strategies.”

The University of Wrocław was ranked 871st in the world, 346th in Europe, and 8th in Poland in the QS Sustainability Ranking 2025. The highest score was awarded in the category of Governance as the UWr was placed 485th in the world, 42nd in South-Eastern Europe, and 7th in Poland. QS Sustainability Ranking is concerned with the sustainable development of universities, and its first edition took place three years ago.

Once again, the UWr Institute of Computer Science will be the organiser of the ICPC Central Europe Regional Contest. From 13 to 15 December, our university will host seventy three-person teams consisting of programming enthusiasts from top universities in Central Europe, who will face complex algorithmic tasks.

We talked with professor Jarosław Byrka from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Wrocław. Prof. Byrka participated in the prestigious FOCS 2024 conference in Chicago at the end of October, presenting his work titled The Bidirected Cut Relaxation for Steiner Tree has Integrality Hap Smaller than 2.

November 18th , 19th and 21st , 2024 (Monday-Tuesday-Thursday)

The University of Wrocław ranked among the top 1201-1500 universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025, announced on 9 October 2024. We performed best in the International Outlook category, achieving 3rd place in
Poland.

More than 30 valuable archaeological sites, previously unknown cave paintings, fragments of pottery and stone tools have been identified by Polish archaeologists in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. This is the first Polish research at the site.

The University of Wrocław has been ranked 306th in the  2025 QS Europe University Ranking. In Central and Eastern Europe, we are ranked 22nd among all universities. The ranking shows that a strong feature of the University of Wrocław is the quality of teaching and international exchanges.

From 17-21 June 2024, students from the UWr Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics participated in a summer school on constitutional law in Madrid co-organised by FLAE UWr and the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, the UK’s The Open University, Germany’s FernUniversität in Hagen and Spain’s Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Facultad De Derecho.

In the latest edition of the Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders ranking of scientific publications (previously published under the name Nature Index Annual Tabels), the University of Wrocław was again ranked third among Polish universities. Our chemists, meanwhile, were ranked first among all scientists from Polish universities publishing in chemistry.

The University of Wrocław ranked 900th globally and 4th among Polish universities in the 2024 Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). We were the only Polish institution ranked in the faculty category, placing 263rd worldwide.