Główna nawigacja
There are international rankings that do not require self-reported data provided by institutions and are based on data derived only from the Internet, e.g. information from websites or bibliometric data from well-known sources such as the Web of Science databases, Scopus, or Google Scholar. These include University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), CWTS Leiden Ranking, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), or the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics), etc.
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)
URAP ranking is based on six academic performance indicators that measure research quality, quantity, impact, and productivity and international scientific collaboration: Article (21%), Citation (21%), Total Document (10%), Article Impact Total (18%), Citation Impact (15%), International Collaboration (15%). The ranking is published by the Informatics Institute at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. In the 2023/2024 edition, 3000 HEIs have been ranked, including 56 Polish universities. Lodz University of Technology was classified at the 13th place in Poland, and 1051st place in the world.
TUL was also classified in the field-based URAP rankings: Biological Sciences (1043rd place), Chemical Engineering (509th), Chemical Sciences (524th), Electrical & Electronics Engineering (693rd), Energy & Fuels (384th), Engineering (670th), Food Engineering (491st), Materials Engineering (436th), Mathematical Sciences (712th), Mechanical Engineering (482th), Medical and Health Sciences (1825th), Metallurgy Engineering (212th), Molecular Biology & Genetics (684th), Physical Sciences (693rd), Polymer Science (151st, the only Polish HEI in this category), Technology (703rd).
CWTS Leiden Ranking
The Leiden Ranking stands for a multidimensional perspective on university performance and presents a variety of indicators to explore the performance of universities from different angles. It provides indicators of scientific impact, collaboration, open access publishing, and gender diversity. It is up to users to select the indicator that they wish to use to rank universities. Compared with other university rankings, the CWTS Leiden Ranking offers more advanced bibliometric indicators. In its most recent edition 1506 universities were ranked, including Lodz University of Technology and 38 other Polish HEIs.
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is a leading consulting organization providing policy advice, strategic insights, and consulting services to governments and universities to improve educational and research outcomes. The ranking was published in 2012 for the first time. In its last edition TOP 2000 universities in the world were classified including 41 HEIs from Poland. Lodz University of Technology was classified at 1397th place.
CWUR methodology uses 7 indicators grouped in 4 areas: quality of education (25%), alumni employment (25%), quality of faculty (10%) and research performance (40%).
Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics)
It was established in 2004. It is the world's largest ranking, with all universities, not just the best ones, classified in it. It takes into account the presence and recognition of universities in the web. The aim is to promote open access to information (including scientific publications) and to encourage universities and researchers to ensure that their online presence reflects what they actually do. In the most recent edition TUL has been ranked 2297th in the world.
The ranking methodology considers three indicators: visiblity/impact (number of external networks/subnets linking to the institution's webpages), transparency/openness (number of citations from university Top210 authors, excluding the first 20) and excellence (number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited).
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. It is attached to the Ministry of Education and its main objective is to promote scientific research.
SCImago Ranking
The rankings is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance (50%), innovation outputs (30%) and societal impact measured by their web visibility (20%). In the 2024 edition, 4762 HEIs were ranked, including 70 universities from Poland. Lodz University of Technology was classified at 1186th place in the world and at 19th place in Poland.
In 2021, by subject rankings were included in the SCImago ranking for the first time. In the most recent editon TUL was classified in 25 of them, including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering the TUL was ranked 1st in Poland and 243rd in the world (out of 2142 ranked universities). In Agricultural and Biological Sciences, TUL was ranked 2nd in Poland and 439th in the world (out of 3055 universities). In Chemistry, the university was ranked 3rd in Poland, in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - 4th, and in Physics and Astronomy - 6th in the country.