THE WUR - World University Rankings: the university’s positioning and the methodology

The University of Bologna’s positioning in the Times Higher Education ranking.

Results of the 2025 ranking at a glance

  • 146th in the world rankings
  • 1st among Italian universities for the fifth year running. 

 

Methodology

Indicators and number of universities analysed

The 'World University Rankings' survey was launched in 2010 by the London-based editors of 'Times Higher Education' (THE).

This year, 2092 universities worldwide entered the ranking.

Area

Indicators

Teaching

29.5%

Ratio of PhD students to graduate students

2.0%

Ratio of PhD students to academic staff

5.5%

Reputation of teaching activities

15.0%

Institutional income

2.5%

Ratio of teachers to students

4.5%

Research environment

29.0%

Average number of articles indexed on Scopus per academic staff

5.5%

Research income

5.5%

Reputation of research activities

18.0%

Research quality

30.0%

Impact of citations indexed in Scopus using the Field Weighted Citation Impact (indicator based on citations weighted in the field of research)

15.0%

Strength of research (represents the 75th percentile Field-Weighted Citation Impact of all papers published by an institution)

5.0%

Research excellence (considers publications within the top 10 per cent of all publications by Field-Weighted Citation Impact)

 5.0%

Research influence (influential publications cited by high impact publications)

5.0%

Industry

4.0%

Income from corporate research activities

2.0%

Patents

2.0%

International outlook

7.5%

Ratio of international academic staff to national academic staff

2.5%

Proportion of publications with at least one international co-author

2.5%

Ratio of international students to national students

2.5%