CU Scores in the Best Global Universities Rating

Prague, October 26, 2016

Charles University has achieved another major success in the international rating. The third issue of the Best Global Universities Rating listed Charles University departments among the 300 best in 17 subjects. In three subjects, the university’s departments made it to the Top 100. In general, Charles University improved its rating compared to the last year, having finished just past the 200^th mark, and 84^th among the European universities.

The rating made by U. S. News & World Report listed Charles University among the 100 best workplaces in the world in the following subjects: mathematics (56^th place), physics (63^rd), and plant and animal science (95^th). Eleven subjects taught at Charles University made it to Top 200 (economics and business, environment/ecology, arts and humanities, pharmacology and toxicology, clinical medicine, microbiology, chemistry, space science, molecular biology and genetics, geosciences, neuroscience and behavior, and biology and biochemistry), while three subjects finished in Top 300 (social science, public health and materials science).

The methodology of the rating emphasized the reputation of research and creative activities, number of publications and their citation rate. This year, the rating assessed almost 1,300 universities all over the world; 1,000 universities and colleges out of 65 countries were rated.

subject	rating
Space science	180
biology and biochemistry	272
plant and animal science	95
economics	111
pharmacology and toxicology	154
physics	63
geosciences	189
arts and humanities	153
chemistry	180
clinical medicine	165
mathematics	56
materials science	280
microbiology	167
molecular biology and genetics	184
neuroscience and behavior	194
social science and public health	278
environment/ecology	148

Among Czech universities, the following were also rated: Palacký University (494^th place), Czech Technical University (535^th), Masaryk University (598^th), University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice (850^th) and Brno University of Technology (977^th).

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