The University of Szeged has been ranked 570th by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in their latest World University Rankings for the Academic Year 2024-25. The institution has improved its position by more than 30 places compared to last year. The Ranking includes eleven Hungarian universities with very tight results among the front runners.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) – a UK-based, prestigious organisation specializing in education and study abroad – publishes its world ranking of the world's top universities once a year. According to the QS World University Rankings 2025, published on 4 June, the University of Szeged has improved its international ranking by more than 30 places this year: now ranked 570th compared to 601-610 last year. The top three of the 11 Hungarian institutions on the list were closely ranked. The University of Szeged came in second, with only 6 places behind.
The QS Excellence Ranking assesses the world's higher education institutions according to nine indicators: Academic recognition (30%), employer feedback (15%), faculty to student ratio (10%), citation rate of academic work (20%), international students (5%) and international faculty to researcher ratio (5%), international diversity of research collaborations (5%), the placement rate of graduates and the number of alumni with a high impact in their field (5%), as well as the efforts made for social and environmental sustainability and organisational governance aspects (5%).
The full ranking of higher education is available here: QS WUR 2024/2025.
