We are the second-best technical university in Poland in the latest edition of the prestigious CWTS Leiden Ranking. In the 2025 edition, we rank 4th nationwide, 166th in Europe, and 566th globally. The ranking compares universities worldwide in terms of their academic achievements based on international publications.

The Leiden Ranking 2025 was prepared by the Dutch Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). The results are published in two versions – Traditional and Open – and include scientific papers from international journals covering the years 2020–2023.

All data for the ranking come from the Web of Science database and cover five scientific fields: biomedical and health sciences, life and earth sciences, mathematics and computer science, physical sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities.

Based on these data, universities are evaluated in four categories: scientific impact, collaboration, open access, and gender diversity. Full ranking methodology.

In the main CWTS Leiden Ranking – Traditional Edition, 1,594 universities worldwide were classified this year, including 38 from Poland.

Wrocław University of Science and Technology currently ranks second among all Polish technical universities and fourth in the country in terms of the number of publications within the scientific impact category. We are also the second-best Polish university in the fields of mathematics and computer science as well as physical sciences and engineering.

The CWTS Leiden CWTS Leiden Ranking – Open Edition 2025 includes 2,773 institutions and also considers publications in national and/or regional journals.

In this edition, we achieved our best results in the collaboration and open access categories, ranking 5th in Poland, 236th in Europe, and 713th worldwide in terms of the number of publications.