METHODOLOGY – PERSPEKTYWY UNIVERSITY RANKING 2024

The Perspektywy University Ranking 2024 presents Polish academic universities that have a right to confer doctoral degree and have minimum 200 enrolled full-time students. To be included in the ranking university must have at least two years of graduates that took part in the survey.

REPUTATION - 12%

• Academic reputation – a number of indications based on the survey conducted among academic staff (full professors as well as PhDs with habilitation, who have obtained their academic titles in the years 2019-2023. The survey takes also into account votes cast in the previous year. It was completed by Perspektywy Education Foundation in the CAWI method and institutions were split into three groups (academic universities, private universities and state higher vocational schools). Source: Perspektywy. (10%)
• International recognition – measured by an institution’s position in the following 2023 international rankings: ARWU, THE, QS, US News, Leiden, FT, and Webometrics. Source: international university rankings. (2%)

EMPLOYABILITY- 12%

• Alumni earnings - CHANGE IN METHODOLOGY: the indicator reflects the alumni earnings of a given university in 2018-2021 to average earnings in the county of residence according to the nationwide study of the “Polish Graduate Tracking System" (ELA) by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education based on the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) data (note: due to the change in the method of determining the indicator value, the current ranking edition includes the average of the indicator values measured in accordance with the new and previous methods, which took into account alumni earnings in the first year after graduation). Source: Polish Graduate Tracking System (ELA). (6%)
• Alumni’s employment - CHANGE IN METHODOLOGY: indicator reflects the average length of employment of graduates of a given university in 2018-2021- according to the nationwide study the "Polish Graduate Tracking System" (ELA) by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education based on the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) data. The data refer to unemployment rates in the counties of residence of graduates (note: due to a change in the method of determining the indicator value, the current edition of the ranking includes the average of the indicator values measured in accordance with the new and previous methods, which took into account the employment of graduates in the first year after graduation). Source: Polish Graduate Tracking System (ELA). (6%)

RESEARCH POTENTIAL - 13%

• Parametric evaluation – the sum of rating (categories) of individual disciplines assessed by the Committee for Scientific Evaluation (KEN), weighted by the number of full time academic staff activity in the evaluated disciplines (the so-called number “N”), and related to the total number of the staff. Source: POL-on database. (10%)
• Academic staff with highest qualifications - defined as the ratio of the number of researchers and research/teaching staff (full time professors, PhDs with habilitation) to the total number of teaching staff employed as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on database. (1%)
• Rights to confer PhD degrees and PhD with habilitation degree – measured by the weighted sum of rights to confer PhD with habilitation degree (2 points for each discipline university is entitled to, 3 points for each discipline university conferred PhD degree, and 3 points for each discipline university conferred PhD degree with habilitation) as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on. (1%)
• Teaching in doctoral schools - NEW INDICATOR measured as the ratio of the number of doctoral students studying in doctoral schools in a given university to the number of research and research/teaching employees with a habilitation degree or the title of professor as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on. (1%)

RESEARCH EFFECTIVENESS - 30%

• External funding for research – CHANGE IN THE METHODOLOGY: measured by the ratio of the total funding obtained for research and development from outside in 2022-2023 to the total number of research and research/teaching staff as of the end of year. The indicator reflects the differences in research cost intensity between scientific disciplines (note: due to the change in the method of determining the indicator value, the current ranking edition measured the average of the indicator values calculated in accordance with the new and previous method, which did not take into account the differences in research cost intensity between scientific disciplines). Source: POL-on and university data - PNT S1 report. (6%)
• EU funding for research and innovation - NEW INDICATOR measured as the ratio of financial resources obtained from the EU framework programs for scientific research and innovation in relation to all employees engaged in research and implementation activities as of the end of year. The indicator concerns funds for the years 2022-2023 and takes into account differences in research costs between scientific disciplines. Sources: POL-on and CORDIS database. (3%)
• Faculty development – measured by the ratio of academic titles and degrees obtained by university staff in 2022 and 2023 (PhD's with habilitation weighted 1.5 and full professors weighted 2.0) in relation to the total number of academic staff - professors and doctoral degrees employed full-time. Source: POL-on database. (3%)
• Academic titles awarded – measured by the ratio of academic titles and degrees awarded by university in 2022 and 2023 (PhDs weighted 1,0, PhDs with habilitation weighted 1.5, full professors weighted 2.0) in relation to the total number of full-time academic staff. Source: POL-on database. (3%)
• Publications – measured by the ratio of the number of publications in the SCOPUS database covering 2019-2023 to the total number of full-time researchers and research/teaching staff as of the end of year. Source: SciVal and POL-on. (3%)
• Citations – measured by the ratio of citations in 2019-2023 (SCOPUS database), in relation to the number of the cited publications; self-citations not included. Source: SciVal. (3%)
• FWCI (Field-Weighted Citation Impact – measured by the ratio of citations of the publication to the average number of citations obtained by similar publications indexed in the SCOPUS database for 2019-2023. Source: SciVal. (3%)
• FWVI (Field-Weighted View Impact) - the ratio of the number of page views (screen views) of publications to the average number of page views obtained by similar publications indexed in the SCOPUS database in 2019-2023. Source: SciVal. (3%)
• Top 10 (Publications in Top 10 Journal Percentiles) - indicates the extent to which university's publications are present in 10% of the most frequently cited magazines in the world. The index is calculated by the ratio of publications in magazines with the highest CiteScore coefficient in relation to all university publications in 2019-2023. Source: SciVal. (3%)

INNOVATION - 8%

• Patents and rights’ protection in Poland – the number of patents and protection rights obtained by university in Poland in 2021-2023 in relation to the number of employees involved in research and implementation assigned to scientific disciplines in the fields with "patentability" - i.e.: engineering and technical sciences, agricultural sciences, exact and natural sciences, medical and health sciences, and parts of social sciences. Source: POL-on database and university data. (3%)
• Foreign patents and protection rights – number of patents and protection rights obtained outside the country in 2021-2023 in relation to the number of employees involved in research and implementation, assigned to scientific disciplines in the fields with "patentability" - i.e.: engineering and technology, agriculture, natural sciences, medicine and health, and parts of social sciences. Source: POL-on database and university data. (3%)
• SDG – contribution of research to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2030 agenda). Source: SciVAL. (2%)

TEACHING - 10%

• Teaching staff - ratio of the number of academic teaching full-time staff (professors weighted 2.0, PhDs with habilitation weighted 1.5 and PhDs weighted 1.0) to the total number of students (full-time students weighted 1.0 and external students weighted 0.6) as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on database. (5%)
• Accreditations – measured by the number of valid international accreditations and certificates, valid accreditations with distinction granted by 2018 by the Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA) and Education Excellence Certificates (also granted by PKA). Source: PKA database and international accreditation institutions’ database. (5%)

INTERNATIONALIZATION - 15%

• International students – measured by the ratio of foreign students to the total number of students as of 31.12.2023 (note: universities that have a percentage of international students of at least 25 percent receive the maximum number of points). Source: POL-on database. (3%)
• Students studying in foreign language – measured by the ratio of students studying in a foreign language in relation to the total number of students as of 31.12.2023 (note: universities where the percentage of students studying foreign languages is at least 25 percent receive the maximum number of points). Source: POL-on database and university data. (3%)
• ICI (Collaboration Impact) – measured by the number of citations in publications with a foreign co-author in 2019-2023. Self-citations are not included. Source: SciVal. (2%)
• Membership in European university – indicator rewards universities that are full members of a EU European university consortium as of 31.12.2023. Source: European Commission database. (1%)
• International teaching staff – measured by the ratio of the number of international staff to the total number of full-time teaching staff as of 31.12.2023 (note: universities that have a percentage of foreign academic staff of at least 25 percent receive the maximum number of points). Source: POL-on database. (1%)
• Mobility of academic staff under the Erasmus+ - measured by the number of academic teachers going abroad as part of international exchange (minimums 5 days) in relation to the total number of academic teachers (note: universities in which the ratio of the number of mobility to the number of university employees reached a value of at least 25 percent receive the maximum number of points). Source: Erasmus+. (1%)
• Student mobility (outbound) – measured by the ratio of students going abroad for at least three months, in the last year reported to POL-on, to the total number of students as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on database. (1,5%)
• Students mobility (inbound) – measured by the ratio of students coming to the institution as part of an international exchange program for at least three months, in the last year reported to POL-on, to the total number of students as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on database. (1,5%)
• Multicultural composition of student body – measured by the number of countries represented by at least 10 foreign students as of 31.12.2023. Source: POL-on database. (1%) Note: PhD with habilitation is the degree between doctoral degree and full professor title.