MedUni Vienna has made a leap forward in the renowned Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in the category “Clinical Medicine” compared to the previous year (76-100th place) and has placed itself among the best medical universities in the world, ranking 51-75th.
.The new ranking makes MedUni Vienna the second best medical university in the D-A-C-H region behind the University of Heidelberg and the best in Austria. Together with Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University, it is ranked 6th within the European Union and 15th in Europe as a whole.
The US universities Harvard, the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania are in the top spots. In 4th place comes Oxford, the first university from Europe.
MedUni Vienna also came top in other categories: 37th in the “Medical Technology” category, 51-75th in Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and 76-100th in Human Biological Sciences.
About the ranking
Over 5,000 universities were compared in the Shanghai ranking. The individual disciplines were primarily evaluated according to research performance. Criteria included the publication of scientific papers in the top journals of the respective subject, citations of these papers, the proportion of papers with international co-authorship and awards.
ShanghaiRanking published the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) for the first time in 2017. The GRAS 2024 contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects from the fields of natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medicine and social sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities from 96 countries and regions are listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of universities worldwide in each subject. Five key assessment categories are considered: World-class faculty, world-class output, high-quality research, research impact and international collaboration. The Index of International Academic Excellence is based on the Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.