Polish universities lead the way among EU13 countries

Czech academics quit low-paid university jobs to work in schools

Disciplinary pay gaps prompt large protests by arts and humanities scholars

By Ben Upton

23 April

Poland looks to Asia and Africa to boost student recruitment

Students who would have studied in Ukraine are turning to Poland since the invasion, university leaders say

By Ben Upton

25 February

University underfunding ‘an existential threat’ to Estonia

Increasingly international universities want to push native-language brain drain up the political agenda, despite their rescue from ‘freefall’ by a recent funding top-up

By Ben Upton

13 November

Why has research in the EU13 countries not caught up with the west?

Universities in the former East Germany are now on a par with those of western Europe while others in the former Soviet bloc still lag. David Matthews visits Poland to explore why

By David Matthews

26 April

Rank	World University Rank 2023	Institution	Country	Teaching score	Research score	Citation score	Industry score	International score	Overall score
1	501–600	Charles University	Czech Republic	72.9	84.4	50.9	37.7	65.1	68.3
2	201–250	University of Tartu	Estonia	41.6	57.7	94.6	58.1	66.5	64.6
3	201–250	Semmelweis University	Hungary	52.1	27.3	90	52.5	78.2	58
4	801–1,000	University of Warsaw	Poland	58.7	70	43.5	39	43.5	55.9
5	601–800	Jagiellonian University	Poland	52.5	51.8	58	38.5	41.2	52.7
6	351–400	Wroclaw Medical University	Poland	41.1	14	91.1	40.1	37.7	47.7
7	401–500	University of Cyprus	Cyprus	28.6	33.3	68.5	82.4	85.3	47.6
8	601–800	Eötvös Loránd University	Hungary	45.6	37.5	50.8	37.4	53	45.1
9	501–600	University of Nicosia	Cyprus	22.3	21.6	77.4	38.1	96.6	44.6
10	501–600	Bucharest University of Economic Studies	Romania	19.5	13.5	100	38.9	24.8	42.7
11	801–1,000	Masaryk University	Czech Republic	35.1	51.1	34.8	39.7	67.6	42.4
12	601–800	Tallinn University of Technology	Estonia	24.4	30.4	56.3	74.8	79.1	41.1
13	801–1,000	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia	32.2	37.9	48.1	51.1	48.7	40.4
14	601–800	Riga Stradiņš University	Latvia	17.7	13.1	77.3	40.1	74.1	39
15	601–800	Medical University of Lodz	Poland	21.5	10.9	82	37.4	30.5	37.6
16	601–800	Cyprus University of Technology	Cyprus	24.4	21.7	55.1	41.7	80.3	37.4
17	801–1,000	Vilnius University	Lithuania	27.6	27.9	48.4	58.9	56.5	36.9
18	801–1,000	University of Latvia	Latvia	20.3	36	46.3	61.7	55.7	36.5
19	801–1,000	University of Malta	Malta	22.1	25	54.6	38.3	63.6	36.2
20	1,001–1,200	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań	Poland	33.1	45.8	29	42.5	34.5	36
21	801–1,000	Lithuanian University of Health Sciences	Lithuania	21.8	11.5	62.2	38.1	59.5	34.1
22	801–1,000	University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice	Czech Republic	23	25.5	48	37	52.1	33.8
23	801–1,000	Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca	Romania	21.9	10	63.1	37.7	52.4	33.4
24	1,001–1,200	Comenius University in Bratislava	Slovakia	29.4	24.5	40.5	37.5	54	33.3
25	1,001–1,200	University of Debrecen	Hungary	40.4	20.9	30.5	49.2	60.8	33.3
26	1,001–1,200	Palacký University Olomouc	Czech Republic	23.1	28.6	40.9	39	60.3	33.3
27	801–1,000	Medical University of Gdańsk	Poland	27.7	11.3	57	37	42.2	32.9
28	1,001–1,200	University of Pécs	Hungary	43	19.4	27.8	41.3	56.8	32.4
29	1,001–1,200	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU)	Czech Republic	20.8	19	43	73.9	72.3	32.1
30	1,001–1,200	University of Szeged	Hungary	28.3	24.2	34	43.5	61.5	31.6

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