Six Ukrainian Universities Make It Into Global Top Rankings

Kharkiv's Karazin University ranked highest among the others.

Six Ukrainian universities have made it into the QS World University Rankings 2020 list of the best universities in the world. This is reported by BBC.

The highest-placed Ukrainian university is V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, which ranks 491st. The others placed in the ranking between positions 500 and 800:

• V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University — 491st place
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv — 541-550th places
• National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" — 651-700th places
• National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" — 701-750th places
• Sumy State University — 701-750th places
• Lviv Polytechnic National University — 751-800th places

Compared with 2019, the situation for Ukrainian universities has barely changed: the same 6 institutions made the ranking then as well.

The leaders of the overall world university ranking are 4 American universities and 1 British university:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
2. Stanford (USA)
3. Harvard (USA)
4. Oxford (UK)
5. California Institute of Technology (USA)

The QS World University Rankings is considered one of the most authoritative global rankings of higher education institutions. Its compilers are guided by a number of criteria: the academic reputation of an institution, the citation index of its researchers' articles, the percentage of international students, the institution's reputation among employers, and more.