THE Impact Rankings

In 2020, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice took part in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings for the first time. This year, the rankings consisted of 766 universities from 85 countries of the world. Apart from our university, three other Slovak universities made the rankings: University of Economics in Bratislava, Technical University of Košice and Comenius University in Bratislava.

In the global evalutation, our university’s rank was 301-400. Among the 20 universities of the V4, UPJŠ shared the positions 5-8 with the University of Gdańsk, the University of Pécs, and the University of Warsaw. When comparing Czech and Slovak universities, UPJŠ scored third best out of nine.

Our university achieved it’s best scores in SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) and SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being). In the SDG 16 rankings, UPJŠ ranked 91st out of 453 universities from 76 countreis. The SDG 3 rankings consisted of 620 universities from 80 countries of the world and UPJŠ’s rank there was 101-200. In both cases, our university ranked second best among the ranked Czech and Slovak universities.