The University of Jyväskylä near to the top-500 universities in the world

In field-specific comparisons, Arts & Humanities at JYU were in second place in Finland and 206th on the global list. In field-specific comparisons, Arts & Humanities at JYU were ranked 206. The ranking of the University of Jyväskylä was 525 on the latest Best Global Universities list published in the USA. The JYU´s last year’s position was 489.
Published
23.10.2020

The global ranking by U.S. News & World Report is based on indicators such as research reputation and the number of publications and citations. The new edition includes country, regional and subject-specific rankings. This year the comparison included 1,500 universities from 86 countries.

Jyväskylä was the seventh highest of nine Finnish universities on the list. In field-specific comparisons, JYU was 206th in Arts & Humanities. In other fields, JYU was ranked in Mathematics (221), Social Sciences and Public Health (227), Chemistry (399), Physics (391), Environment/Ecology (427), Plant and Animal Science (490) and Clinical Medicine (586).

From Finnish universities, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University were ranked highest. The list also included the University of Turku, the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Tampere, the University of Oulu, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology and Åbo Akademi University.

The top three universities on the global list are Harvard, MIT and Stanford in the US. The top three European universities are Oxford, Cambridge and University College London.

U.S. News & World Report has published rankings of US universities for over 30 years.

Further information:

Head of Internationalization & Higher Education Policy Anna Grönlund, anna.m.gronlund@jyu.fi, tel. +358 50 313 0401

Best Global Universities Rankings, https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings