Great success for the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) : in the annually published Shanghai Ranking, the university has improved massively compared to the previous year and is now also among the nine top universities in Austria.

From over 2500 universities evaluated worldwide, the top 1,000 are published in the Shanghai Ranking. The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg now ranks among the top 701-800 universities in the yearly league table. The PLUS has made a significant leap compared to previous years, when it was ranked among the best 901 to 1000 universities.

“This is another big step forward! The Paris Lodron University is a renowned university worldwide, we do not need to shy away from international comparisons,” says Rector Hendrik Lehnert. “I am particularly pleased with our Political Science department’s excellent ranking – which is in the top 100 worldwide – not to mention the other outstanding rankings for Geography, Geoinformatics, Mathematics, Psychology and Environmental Sciences.

You can find more details at:  https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2022

The Academic Ranking of World Universities uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded™ and Social Sciences Citation Index™ in the Web of Science™, and per capita performance of a university.