Renewed success in the current Shanghai Ranking 2025: FAU has advanced a total of four places in the international comparison, landing on place 242. Compared to other universities in Germany, FAU has advanced one place to rank 17th overall. In the category “per capita performance”, FAU is ranked 95th, once more among the top one hundred universities in the world.
One of the leading institutions in Germany for number of publications
FAU remains in the top 200 for the number of publications in the prestigious journals Nature and Science, ranking 164th. In the category of the most highly cited researchers, FAU improved by 12 places to place 255. The best indicator achieved by FAU in comparison to other German universities also relates to publications, with FAU coming in 10th for the overall number of publications.
The importance of university rankings
Universities strive to gain one of the top places in international and national rankings. There are a number of different rankings: Shanghai-Ranking, THE-Ranking, QS-Ranking. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is included in each of these three prestigious university rankings. But what do they actually indicate? And what impact do they have? We have answers to the most frequently asked questions.
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Amelie Feder
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