In the beginning of this week the QS World University Rankings 2015 were announced. According to them, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) not only remains second strongest university in Lithuania, but has moved up by almost 100 places in the Rankings.
In the Faculty-Student Category, which equals the teaching quality KTU is among the 300 (up from 500+) best universities in the world.
The Research Category remains qualified as very high, and the KTU’s academic reputation (49,7 points) is the highest among Lithuanian institutions of higher education.
QS World University Rankings 2015, this year announced for the twelfth time, analysed performance of more than 3.5 thousand universities across the globe in 36 study fields, but only 894 made it to the Rankings.
The ranked categories are Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Faculty Student ratio, International Faculty, International Students, Citations per Faculty. The first 400 universities are being ranked individually, and the rest grouped into clusters. The Rankings include 4 per cent of the world’s universities.
According to Solveiga Buožiūtė, Director of Strategic Planning and Quality at KTU, although the University remains in the cluster 701+, it has moved up by almost 100 places in comparison to the last year.
“For some of the categories data is being gathered for several years, therefore we could not expect sudden changes in our position, but there is overall tendency for improvement. The organisers of the Rankings sent us a special letter of acknowledgment, as they can see that KTU is approaching the border of 600”, said Buožiūtė.
The first three universities in the world according to QS World University Rankings 2015 are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Harvard and the University of Cambridge.
