Within the framework of the World Academic Summit, the British ranking Times Higher Education has published the results of one of the most influential university rankings in the world. This year they have ranked 2095 institutions from 115 countries.
Also, this year, a record number of Ukrainian universities were included in the ranking – 17 higher education institutions from Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Sumy, Uzhhorod, Kharkiv and Chernivtsi. The number of Ukrainian universities that applied to participate in the ranking is also a record – 55, which is a third more than last year.
The highest position among Ukrainian HEIs was taken by Sumy State University, which entered the group of universities ranked in the range of 801–1000 in the world ranking. All other Ukrainian institutions are in the 1501+ group. Among them there is Lviv Polytechnic National University.
According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 methodology, universities were evaluated based on 18 performance indicators, which are grouped into five areas:
- Teaching (the learning environment);
- Research environment (volume, income and reputation);
- Research quality (citation impact, research strength, research excellence and research influence);
- International outlook (staff, students and research);
- Industry (income and patents).
In total, Times Higher Education analysts analysed 157 million citations and 18 million scientific publications from the Scopus database, and interviewed more than 93,000 academics from around the world in their own reputation surveys.