The Center for World University Rankings (CWRU) has, once more, ranked Universidade de Lisboa among the best in the World within a universe of 22.770 assessed universities. ULisboa has positioned itself in 266th place, 9 points higher than the previous year (275th), and within the top 1% world universities.
To rank the world’s top 1000 universities, CWUR uses the following eight indicators:
| Quality of Education (25%), measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards;
| Alumni Employment (25%), measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions at the world's top companies;
| Quality of Professors (25%), measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards;
| Publications (5%), measured by the number of research papers published;
| Influence (5%), measured by the number of research papers published by highly-influential journals;
| Citations (5%), measured by the number of cited research papers;
| Broad Impact (5%), measured by the scientific impact of published papers;
| Patents (5%), measured by the number of international patent filings in each university.
ULisboa has moved up 9 places in the 2017 ranking, thus establishing its international position in scientific activity indicators.
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