Quacquarelli Symonds: Fifteen Hungarian Institutions among the Best European Universities

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) first published its ranking of the best universities in Europe in autumn 2023, and now the second edition is published under the title QS Europe 2025. 684 out of almost 3,500 universities in more than 40 European countries, including 15 in Hungary, have been included in the list, Világgazdaság reports.

The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) has improved 18 places in the QS European ranking published on July 10, and has gained the 190th place, thus becoming the best university in Hungary in the regional ranking after this year’s QS World University Rankings.

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QS’s European rankings are based on a similar methodology to other lists of the organization, with the difference that they give greater weight to internationalization and mobility as important European values. This is reflected in a newly introduced measure of International Student Diversity.

QS Europe uses 12 indicators, of which ELTE scored highest in Hungary in the areas of academic reputation, publication citation, job opportunities, outgoing student mobility and sustainability.

In terms of job opportunities for graduates, ELTE is ranked in the top 100 in Europe, at 68th place, ELTE said.

The top 15 universities in Hungary in the ranking:

• ELTE is ranked 190th,
• the University of Debrecen is ranked 222nd, up 36 places,
• the University of Szeged is in 228th place, up 14 places,
• the Budapest University of Technology and Economics has moved up from 238th to 247th,
• the University of Pécs moved up from 325th to 314th,
• the Corvinus University moved up 20 places to 370th,
• the Széchenyi István University has also improved its ranking by 12 places to 370th,
• the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences is in the same position as last year, currently ranked 433rd,
• the University of Óbuda, improving on last year’s result, is in 485th place, while
• the University of Miskolc, at the bottom of the Hungarian universities’ top 10, just made it into the top 500 with a ranking of 496.

The top 15 universities in Hungary also include the University of Pannonia, the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, the University of Sopron, the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University and the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church.

Via Világgazdaság, Featured image: Facebook/ELTE GTK