More and more UWr disciplines in THE WUR by Subject ranking!
In the newest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024, which compares universities from all over the world by the disciplines, more subjects from the University of Wrocław could be found compared to last year- eight in total were included. In the previous year UWr got six subjects.
Law was the highest-ranking subject from UWr as it was in the group of 251-300 best reviewed law disciplines in the world. It’s the third place in the country (ex aequo with the University of Gdańsk) after Jagiellonian University (positions 126-250) and University of Warsaw (positions 201-250).
Education and psychology are high on the list too – both in the group of 301-400 best ones. In both subjects we are leading universities in the country, however, in the case of Education we share the podium with two other universities – Jagiellonian University and Adam Mickiewicz University from Poznań, and in the case of Psychology we share the position with University of Warsaw.
Arts and Humanities obtained an impressive result too – positions 401-500. With this subject we reached the second place in the country. University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University and Adam Mickiewicz University got the first place ex aequo.
In the THE ranking the discipline of Arts and Humanities is very wide, it consists of philological studies, history, history of art, archaeology, musicology and philosophy.
Life Sciences advanced in the ranking because they got the 601-800 position. With this discipline we got the third place in the country ex aequo with few other universities. Ahead of us, in the group of 401-500 best universities in the world in this category, is the Jagiellonian University and in the group of 501-600 is University of Warsaw. This discipline in the THE ranking includes both biology and biotechnology.
Social Sciences are on the 801+ position, similarly to Computer Science – positions 801-1000. University of Wrocław was also reviewed in the Science discipline (which in the THE ranking includes physics, chemistry, mathematics and geology) and it got the 1000+ position.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject is one of the most important university rankings which reviews two thousand universities across the globe in 11 different subjects. The same factors were counted as the ones in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 general ranking published at the end of September, however, the methodology was adjusted to each discipline.
University disciplines were reviews in 5 areas: teaching, research environment (including the reputation, the amount of money dedicated to the discipline and productivity), research quality (publications and citations), international outlook (internationalising of the staff, students and research cooperation) and industry (income from the knowledge transfer to the industry and patents).
Each of the areas consisted of few factors, in total there were 18 of them and each of them had a determined weighting which influenced the final result. The weighting differentiated depending on the subject.
The data used to create the ranking was obtained from various sources: questionnaires filled by the universities, the Scopus bibliography base (publications and citations) and research on the reputation of each of the subjects conducted by the Times Higher Education scientists from all over the world.
Full results from the ranking can be found on the website. The methodology used in the ranking can be found here.
Translated by Martyna Błaszków (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
