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Once again, the prestigious Shanghai Ranking has placed the University of Würzburg among the world’s top 200 universities. It is one of only four Bavarian and fourteen German universities in this league.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University has been presenting its “Academic Ranking of Universities Worldwide” since 2003. Better known under the name Shanghai Ranking, the latest edition was published online on August 15, 2016.
Overall result for the university
In the overall result of the 2016 Shanghai Ranking, the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) is again one of the top 200 universities in the world and in the top 14 in Germany. In terms of Bavaria, Würzburg is joined here by the two Munich universities and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. At the top of the ranking stand three establishments from the USA: Harvard and Stanford universities as well as the University of California at Berkeley.
What is more, four Würzburg subject fields are listed among the top 150 worldwide; two of them are even in the top 100.
Results of individual subject fields
The top Würzburg discipline in the Shanghai Ranking is again Chemistry, which stands in 32nd place in the world and 3rd place in Germany. Only the Technical University of Munich and the University of Heidelberg are higher up the ranking here.
In the subject field of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the University of Würzburg has also done very well again. The Shanghai Ranking has placed it once again in the 100 leading universities in the world and among the top eight in Germany.
In the field of Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, JMU is also among the 150 leading universities in the world and in the top nine nationwide. As an individual discipline, Physics is also ranked in the top 150 in the world. At national level, Würzburg is therefore one of eleven outstanding locations for Physics.
Well placed, too, are the Life and Agricultural Sciences. Here, Würzburg is ranked as one of the top 200 universities in the world. Considered nationally, the result places the JMU among the 13 best German universities in this subject area.
Facts about the Shanghai Ranking
In its ranking, the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University looks at individual subjects like Physics and Chemistry as well as broader fields such as “Life Sciences and Agricultural Sciences” and “Science and Mathematics”.
To assess the research output of the universities, the ranking uses six parameters, including the number of Nobel Prize winners and scientists who have received other high-caliber awards, the number of articles published in the top magazines “Nature” and “Science”, and the number of researchers quoted with particular frequency. The Shanghai Ranking compares over 1,200 universities in this manner; the results of the top 500 are published annually.
Results of other rankings
Individual rankings always provide just a partial reflection of the performance capability of the University of Würzburg. Alongside the aforementioned areas, other subjects also constantly achieve very good results in rankings. Psychology, Biology, Medicine, Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, German Studies, and Educational Science, for example, have all scored highly in rankings produced by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE, Gütersloh, Germany). In a performance comparison by news magazine Focus, Biology and Psychology, and Medicine, also excelled.
http://www.shanghairanking.com/ Homepage of the Shanghai Ranking
Prometheus raising high the Torch of Knowledge: the JMU's main building.
Source: (Photo: Robert Emmerich)
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Prometheus raising high the Torch of Knowledge: the JMU's main building.
Source: (Photo: Robert Emmerich)
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