Psychology and law at the University of Wrocław ranked highest in the Times Higher Education WUR by Subject 2026
In the latest edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2026, published on 21 January, as in the previous year, as many as eight disciplines/fields of study at the University of Wrocław were included.
Among the disciplines offered at the University of Wrocław, psychology received the highest rating in this edition, advancing to the 251-300 band among the world’s best universities and taking first place in Poland in this field. Law at the University of Wrocław also performed strongly, ranking in the 301-400 band globally.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject is one of the most important higher education rankings, evaluating approximately 2,000 universities worldwide across 11 subject areas.
Our psychology programme, ranked in the 251-300 band globally (up from the 301-400 band last year), placed first in Poland ex aequo with psychology at the University of Warsaw. Second place in Poland was taken by the Jagiellonian University.
Law at the University of Wrocław, ranked in the 301–400 band among the best law disciplines worldwide, placed third nationally, ex aequo with several other universities. Only the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw ranked higher.
The University of Wrocław maintained its high position from last year in the 401–500 band worldwide in Education Studies. As in the previous year, education at the University of Wrocław ranks third in Poland, ex aequo with the University of Warsaw. First place nationally was taken by Adam Mickiewicz University (ranked 251–300 worldwide), followed by the Jagiellonian University in second place (301–400 worldwide).
The University of Wrocław also ranked in the 401–500 band in Arts & Humanities, placing fourth nationally in this field. In the THE ranking, Arts & Humanities is a very broad category, encompassing philology, history, art history, archaeology, musicology and philosophy.
As in the previous year, the University of Wrocław was ranked in the 801–1,000 band worldwide in Computer Science and in Life Sciences, which include both biology and biotechnology.
The University was also classified in Social Sciences (ranked 1,001+) and in Physical Sciences (which in the THE ranking includes physics, chemistry, mathematics and geology), where it achieved a position in the 1,001–1,250 band.
Ranking methodology
University disciplines were assessed across five areas: teaching, research environment (including indicators related to reputation, income allocated to the discipline and productivity), research quality (publications and citations), international outlook (internationalisation of staff, students and research collaboration), and industry (income from knowledge transfer to industry and patents).
Each area consisted of several indicators, with a total of 18 indicators, each assigned a specific percentage weight influencing the overall score. The weightings varied depending on the discipline.
The data used to compile the ranking are drawn from several sources: surveys completed by higher education institutions, the Scopus bibliographic database (publications and citations), and reputation surveys conducted by Times Higher Education among academics worldwide.
The full ranking results are available on the website.
The ranking methodology is available here.
Added by: E.K
Date of publication: 21.01.2026
