The Center for International Projects “EuroEducation” (http://www.euroosvita.net/), in partnership with the international expert group IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence (http://ireg-observatory.org/en/), has published the eighteenth academic ranking of higher education institutions in Ukraine, “Top-200 Ukraine 2024.”
I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University ranked second among medical and pharmaceutical universities in Ukraine and twentieth among the 200 higher education institutions in the country.
In compiling this year’s ranking, experts considered modern trends in higher education, which is undergoing profound changes due to ongoing reforms and suffering significant losses as a result of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. They also considered the Berlin Principles adopted by participants of the second IREG meeting (Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2006, link) and the IREG Guidelines 2023 for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings (link).
Key Principles of University Rankings in “Top-200 Ukraine 2024”:
a) Ensuring openness, transparency, objectivity, and independence in university rankings. Only publicly available data published on the web resources of independent national and international organizations were used.
b) Considering the comprehensiveness and multidimensional nature of university activities. To this end, university performance was assessed based on broader indicators.
c) Prioritizing European integration processes. Given the importance of Ukraine’s higher education integration into Europe, international performance indicators (QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Scopus, Webometrics, THE University Impact Rankings, QS WUR Sustainability) were assigned higher weight coefficients compared to national indicators.