The best universities in the world 2016 - Slovenian universities advanced

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has revealed the best universities in the world in 2016. The list, which ranks universities according to eight objective criteria, including faculty quality, student employability and its impact, also includes the universities of Ljubljana and Maribor. American universities reign supreme. These are the best universities in the world 2016.

Which ones are best universities in the world 2016? According to the research of the researchers of the Center for the Evaluation of the Quality of Universities in the World (CWUR) is best university in the world 2016 Harvard University. The remaining two places at the top are also owned by an American university, namely Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The University of Ljubljana found itself in the first five hundred years.

Among the best list 1000 universities it found its way into the world 224 American, 90 Chinese, 74 Japanese and 65 British universities. We have the best European universities on the island, namely they came in fourth and fifth place Cambridge and Oxford universities.

The ranking also includes the universities of Ljubljana and Maribor, which are not as high as expected. University of Ljubljana she found herself in 477th place, where it advanced from 504th place, University of Maribor but she swung around to the 804th place, which is sixteen places better than in 2015 (820th place). University of Primorska and University of Nova Gorica did not make the list.

The University of Maribor was in the second half of the list of the best universities in the world.

CWUR uses when sorting eight criteria, namely quality of education (it is measured according to the number of students who have received international awards and recognitions; taking into account the size of the university), employability of students (measured according to the number of students in managerial positions; the size of the university is also taken into account), faculty quality (it is measured according to the number of academics who have received important international awards and recognitions). Each criterion mentioned is worth 25 percent of the grade. All the rest are worth 5 percent and are: the influence of the university (measured by the number of scientific articles published in influential journals), publications (they are measured according to the number of scientific articles published in influential publications), quotations (these are measured according to the number of frequently cited citations), patents (measured against the number of international patent registration requirements) and overall impact (this is measured according to the h-index of the university; it is the ratio between the number of scientific publications in journals with an impact factor and the number of citations).