CWTS Leiden Poland University Rankings 2020

It’s always a good idea to know where your university ranks

When it comes to selecting your university and course, it’s always wise to take university rankings into account. While QS and THE World University Rankings are quite popular, there is another one that many students look out for. Do you know about the CWTS (Dutch: Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologische Studies) Leiden ranking system? 

CWTS Leiden ranking

The CWTS Leiden Ranking is a global university ranking recorded on an annual basis exclusively on bibliometric indicators. These rankings get compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands using the Clarivate Analytics bibliographic database i.e. Web of Science as its source of the publication and citation data. 

With CWTS rankings, you can check:

  • The top-ranked institutions in your study abroad destinations
  • Ranking of your desired institution
  • The best institution in your field

You can also check the ranking as per the indicator which is most important for you.

Information about the CWTS Leiden Ranking

The CWTS Leiden Ranking is an online platform that offers important insights into the scientific performance of over 1200 major universities worldwide. Below we provide some general information about the Leiden Ranking.

CWTS Leiden Ranking 2020

 

University

P

P(top 10%)

PP(top 10%)

 

1

Jagiellonian Univ

4800

272

5.7%

 

2

Univ Warsaw

2956

183

6.2%

 

3

AGH Univ Sci & Technol

2468

124

5.0%

 

4

Adam Mickiewicz Univ Poznan

2352

151

6.4%

 

5

Wrocław Univ Sci & Technol

2159

127

5.9%

 

6

Warsaw Univ Technol

2101

111

5.3%

 

7

Med Univ Warsaw

1994

80

4.0%

 

8

Poznań Univ Med Sci

1645

62

3.8%

 

9

Nicolaus Copernicus Univ Toruń

1643

85

5.2%

 

10

Łódź Univ Technol

1628

105

6.4%

 

11

Univ Wrocław

1590

97

6.1%

 

12

Med Univ Lódz

1532

69

4.5%

 

13

Silesian Univ Technol

1502

79

5.3%

 

14

Gdańsk Univ Technol

1455

124

8.5%

 

15

Med Univ Silesia

1408

53

3.8%

 

16

Univ Warmia & Mazury Olsztyn

1359

55

4.1%

 

17

Univ Silesia Katowice

1357

60

4.4%

 

18

Wrocław Med Univ

1298

53

4.1%

 

19

Univ Łódź

1273

68

5.3%

 

20

Univ Gdańsk

1258

61

4.9%

 

21

Warsaw Univ Life Sci

1176

78

6.7%

 

22

Med Univ Gdansk

1175

71

6.0%

 

23

Med Univ Lublin

1169

49

4.2%

 

24

Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univ

1157

50

4.3%

 

25

Poznań Univ Technol

1141

89

7.8%

 

 

 

University

P

P(top 10%)

PP(top 10%)

 

26

Poznań Univ Life Sci

914

48

5.2%

 

27

Med Univ Białystok

909

41

4.5%

 

28

Wrocław Univ Environ & Life Sci

890

56

6.3%

 

29

Univ Life Sci Lublin

877

34

3.9%

 

30

W Pomeranian Univ Technol - Szczecin

835

32

3.8%

 

31

Univ Agr Kraków

814

36

4.5%

 

Source:  https://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2020/list

Fast Facts

  • Located in central Europe
  • Area: 312,685 sq km
  • Population: around 38.4 million
  • Capital: Warsaw (also the largest city)
  • Borders with Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the Baltic sea
  • Students will need a minimum of 30,000 PLN (~US$7,820) per year to cover their living costs in Poland.
  • International tuition fees can reach up to ~US$4,180 per year at public universities.
  • Poland has a TV channel dedicated to the Pope.
  • National currency: zloty (PLN)
  • More winners of the “World’s Strongest Man” competition than any other location
  • 17 Nobel Prize winners
  • 9,300 lakes, 23 National Parks, and one desert
  • 90 percent of Poles have completed at least secondary education, the highest score in the EU, along with Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes.
  • Polish-born astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to suggest that the Earth was in fact not the center of the universe.
  • 70 percent of the Nazi extermination camps during WWII were located in Poland, including the three most infamous, Auschwitz, Treblinka and Belzec.

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Updated on Jan 12, 2022

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