Warsaw: SiltaNews – News Desk
Several Polish universities, including top medical and research institutions, have earned high positions in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, one of the world’s most respected assessments of higher education. The 2026 ranking, published by the British magazine Times Higher Education, evaluated 2,191 universities from 115 countries across teaching, research, international collaboration, and knowledge transfer.
Poland’s Jagiellonian University in Krakow, ranked highest in the 501 – 600 range. According to the ranking, Jagiellonian University was also placed 101 – 125 globally in Law in 2025, steadily rising from the 201 – 250 group in 2023. Jagiellonian University was followed by Wrocław Medical University in the same 501 – 600 tier. The University of Warsaw was listed in the 601 – 800 group, while the Medical University of Łódź appeared in the 801 – 1000 range.
Other Polish universities, including the Warsaw and Gdańsk medical universities, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, AGH University of Kraków, and the Gdańsk and Silesian universities of technology, were ranked between 1001 – 1200. An additional 12 Polish universities appeared in the 1201 – 1500 tier, while another 20 were placed in the 1501+ group.
The 2026 edition once again placed the University of Oxford at the top for the tenth year in a row, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University. The top ten also include Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University. The United States leads in the number of universities included overall, with India and China showing the fastest growth in representation.