University of Copenhagen still ranked No 1 in Scandinavia - 14.08.2008

University of Copenhagen is ranked number 8 in Europe and number 45 worldwide in the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

University of Copenhagen is ranked particularly high in the category Life Sciences which in this instance covers several research areas at the Faculty of Life Sciences, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science.

In 2007, University of Copenhagen was listed as number 46 worldwide and number 8 in Europe, so this year’s placement is about status quo.  University of Copenhagen continues to be number 1 in Scandinavia.

Quality assessment of research and education is an area that receives increasing attention in the both the public and at the universities. The different ranking lists published each year represent different attempts to benchmark the universities against each other. The universities' placement varies from ranking to ranking due to different methods of assessment.

In the present ranking, emphasis is put on publication of research articles and number of citations of the institutions’ researchers. Journals in Danish are not included in the survey. This means that research areas such as (Danish) law, theology, and some humanities are not represented accurately in the ranking, as many articles in these fields are published in Danish journals.

More than one thousand universities around the world are considered in the ranking.

Read more about the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2008.

- last update:26 August 2008