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Our University at the global forefront

18.05.2023

The Medical University of Gdańsk has been placed among 5,3% world’s best universities according to the Global 2000 List by the Center for World University Rankings. This rank describes in detailt 2 000 world’s best universities from 20 531 (including 40 Polish) taken into account by its authors. Our University took 1078th place in total and 14th in Poland as well as turned to be the best university in Gdańsk again.


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The Global 2000 List by the Center for World University Rankings rank is created considering both didactical and scientifical activity of given unit. Total number of points consists of particular categories:

  1. quality of education, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major academic distinctions relative to the university’s size (25%),
  2. alumni employment, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held top executive positions at the world’s largest companies relative to the university’s size (25%),
  3. quality of faculty, measured by the number of faculty members who have won major academic distinctions (10%),
  4. research performance (divided into 4 subcategories):
    • research output, measured by the total number of research articles (10%),
    • high-quality publications, measured by the number of research articles appearing in top-tier journals (10%),
    • influence, measured by the number of research articles appearing in highly-influential journals (10%),
    • citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research articles (10%).

Full rank is available at the Center for World University Rankings website.