The QS World University Rankings has ranked more than 1,500 higher education institutions in over a hundred countries around the world according to a complex system of criteria for the 21st year. In addition to millions of scientific publications, the ranking is based on the opinions of hundreds of thousands of university lecturers and higher education workers, but the independent organization also uses a number of other metrics that change or are updated over the years. Among other things, the results include the employment rate of university graduates, participation in international research, and the sustainability of the work of the institution in question.
Combining all of this, the nominally referred to results for 2025 were born. There is no surprise in the identity of the first place winner: MIT, that is, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came out on top for the thirteenth time in a row, and they are practically at the top in everything, Others can and should be measured against them.
There has been some change behind MIT, but the identity of the top nine has not changed, even if they are a few places off last year's results.
Hungarian universities are also on the list, and are in a much better position than in the 2024 edition. While previously the University of Szeged was ahead of the University of Debrecen and Eötvös Loránd University, this time ELTE jumped to 564th place. SZTE University tied for 570th place, while The University of Debrecen tied for 574th place. These are good results in light of the fact that in the previous rankings, no Hungarian university reached the top six hundred.
The list also includes BME University (ranked 721-730), University of Pécs (ranked 771-780), Corvinus (ranked 1001-1200), Hungarian University of Agricultural and Life Sciences (ranked 1001-1200) and Széchenyi Istvan University. University of Győr (1001-1200), University of Miskolc (1201-1400), Bannon University (1201-1400) and Úbuda University (1201-1400).
