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It is the fourth time the Nicolaus Copernicus University has been listed in the QS World University Ranking which comprises 4% of the best higher education schools in the world.

There are six criteria considered in the raking. These are: lecturers’ opinions (40% of the total assessment), employers’ opinion (10%), the ratio of the number of students to the number of lecturers (20%), the so-called research papers citation index based on Scopus (20%), the percentage of foreign lecturers (5%), and the percentage of overseas students (5%).

There are only six Polish universities in the ranking: the University of Warsaw at 366th place, the Jagiellonian University (in the 431-440 ranking group), the Warsaw University of Technology (in the 601-650 ranking group), our University, the University of Łódź and the University of Wrocław (in the 701+ ranking group).

The QS rankings have been produced since 2004 by the Quacquarelli Symonds orgainsation which focuses on higher education. The most important objective of the ranking is to provide students with a rational choice of the universities and promote studying outside the native country.

The Nicolaus Copernicus University has been listed with a small group of Polish universities in the QS World University Rankings for some years. It appeared there for the first time in 2013. It was also present in 2014 and 2015. In June of 2016 the Nicolaus Copernicus University was rated in the top QS University Ranking for Europe and Central Asia  with a total assessment of 42.5. It took then 99th place, recording a rise as compared to the last year's rankings (then it was at 101 place).

QS World University Ranking 2016