THE World University Ranking:
University of Hohenheim Rises to the Top Segment [23.09.16]
Small and highly specialized university climbs up to the top 30 percent / top position in Agricultural Sciences and Food Science
Really this is the playing field of large universities - but this year the small, highly specialized University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart managed to climb to the top one-third of the World University Ranking. The British magazine “Times Higher Education” (THE) publishes the 980 top universities worldwide in this ranking each year. It is an evaluation of the entire university. Special strengths, e.g. the University of Hohenheim’s Agricultural Sciences and Food Sciences, are not taken into consideration. In this area, three separate rankings placed the University of Hohenheim as no. 1 in Germany and among the top ten in Europe. See details at www.uni-hohenheim.de/rankings
The current THE World University Ranking places the University of Hohenheim in the class of the world’s best 251-300 universities. The exact placement is not shown by the THE ranking.
For Germany, this means that the University of Hohenheim is somewhere between places 27 and 32 - out of a total of 108 universities in Germany. It is thereby in the top third of German universities.
Climbing Classes in the Overall Ranking, No. 1 in Agricultural Research & Food Science
In comparison to the previous year, the University of Hohenheim has gone up a group. In 2015, it was in the range of the 301-350 best universities. Its improvements were especially in teaching and scientific citations.
It remains the unbeaten no. 1 in Germany in the areas of Agricultural Research and Food Sciences. This is shown by three current rankings: The Best Global Universities Ranking by the magazine U.S. News & World Report, the QS World University Ranking and the NTU Ranking by the National Taiwan University.
Evaluation Corresponds to University’s Standards
“As a small, specialized university, we can’t give in to the illusion that we can compete with the large universities in an overall evaluation. The fact that we still made it into the top one-third of German universities and worldwide is something that I view as a great success,” commented President Prof. Dr. Stephan Dabbert.
“This mix - in the top group worldwide for the overall evaluation and no. 1 in our specialized area - corresponds to the demands we place on ourselves, which is why we see this improvement as a great confirmation of our work.”
Background: Times Higher Education World University Ranking
The Times Higher Education World University Ranking ranks the 980 best universities in the world according to their strengths in research (30%), teaching (30%), scientific citations (30%), internationalization (7.5%) and external funding from the private sector (2.5%). The THE ranking is based on statistical and bibliometric data in Elsevier’s Scopus database and on a worldwide survey of scientists.
Text: Klebs
