17 Ukrainian universities have been included in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine reports.
“Within the framework of the World Academic Summit, the British rating agency Times Higher Education has published the results of one of the most influential university rankings in the world. A total of 2095 institutions from 115 countries were evaluated. This year, a record number of Ukrainian universities were included in the ranking – 17 universities from Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Sumy, Uzhhorod, Kharkiv, and Chernivtsi. Another record is the number of Ukrainian universities that have applied to participate in the ranking – 55, which is a third more than last year,” the ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that Sumy State University took the highest position among Ukrainian universities, joining the group of universities that took places in the range of 801-1000 in the world ranking.
According to the report, all other Ukrainian institutions are in the 1501+ group.
In particular, the Bogomolets National Medical University, Mechnikov Odesa National University, and Stefanyk Precarpathian National University appeared in the ranking table for the first time.
The Ministry of Education said that according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 methodology, universities were evaluated by 18 performance indicators grouped into five generalized indicators: educational activities, research environment, research quality, cooperation with industry, and international openness.
“In total, Times Higher Education analysts analyzed 157 million citations and 18 million scientific publications from the Scopus database, and interviewed more than 93 thousand scientists from around the world during their own reputation surveys,” the ministry added.
As reported, last year, six Ukrainian universities were included in the top thousand most sustainable universities in the annual Impact Rankings by the British rating agency Times Higher Education.
