The University of Bucharest (UB) is, according to the latest World University Rankings by Subject 2024, made by Times Higher Education (THE) and published on Thursday, October 26, 2023, the first university in Romania in 5 of the 7 fields in which is included, the fields of Education, Arts and Humanities, Computer Science, Psychology and Social Sciences.
Thus, the University of Bucharest occupies the first position at national level in the field of Education. At the same time, internationally, for the same field, UB is positioned in the 501 – 600 range in the ranking made by THE.
Also, the University of Bucharest ranks first nationally in the field of Arts and Humanities, alongside “Babeș-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca and “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu, but also in the field of Computer Science, alongside “Babeș-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca, University of Craiova, “Politehnica” University in Timișoara, Technical University in Cluj-Napoca and “Transilvania” University in Brasov.
Psychology also places the University of Bucharest in the first place at the national level in the World University Rankings by Subject 2024, alongside “Babeș-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.
Last but not least, the University of Bucharest occupies the first position in the ranking made by THE in the field of Social Sciences alongside “Babeș-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca, the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu and West University in Timișoara.In fact, the University of Bucharest is included in 7 of the 11 fields analyzed, to those above are added Life Sciences and Physical Sciences, fields in which the University of Bucharest constantly obtains very good results. The University of Bucharest does not appear in the ranking in the fields in which either the institution does not have study programs (for example, Medical Sciences), or in those in which there are publications by teaching staff not included in the ranking because their number did not reach the minimum threshold to be classified.World University Rankings by Subject 2024 is made based both on the general data reported by universities (human resources, students, graduates, financial resources) and on information obtained from open sources (research, citations, international collaborations). More details on the World University Rankings by Subject 2024 by Times Higher Education (THE) are available here.