The THE Rankings are among of the most influential worldwide university rankings, and the number of participating universities have grown steadily every year since 2011: in the latest survey period of the THE World University Ranking there were 1,904 universities. Of all the participating universities, only the departments with the most publications qualify for the individual top lists, the so-called THE Subject Rankings.
In the new ranking for the University of Passau, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems (subject area "Business and Economics") is ranked in the 251–300 group. This ranking is led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Universities of Stanford and Harvard.
The University of Passau occupies ranking group 301–400 in the subject areas "Computer Science" and "Social Sciences". The University of Oxford leads the Computer Science area, ahead of Stanford and MIT. In the social sciences, Massachusetts and Stanford are tied for the lead, ahead of Oxford in third place.
"I warmly congratulate the departments on these successes, which are the result of their very good work in terms of content and an appointment policy that is consistently geared towards research strength. Not least because we have been able to strengthen ourselves with a large number of excellent new colleagues and continue to do so, I am very positive about our future development. As the University Executive, we will do everything we can to support the departments in the best possible way to remain on course for success", said Professor Jan Schumann, Vice President for Research at the University of Passau.
The rankings are based on a comparison of 16 different indicators from the areas of research, teaching, knowledge transfer and internationalisation. Some of the data, above all indicators on the student body, staff figures and financial resources are reported by the participating universities themselves, While others are obtained from academic databases and THE-conducted surveys among international academics.