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NTU Rankings: ULisboa is among the 150 best engineering universities in the world

September 2nd 2021updated on January 5th 2022 at 14:50

ULisboa ranks in the top 200 in the overall ranking, and in the top 100 in various subjects.

The most recent edition of the “Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities”, also known as the NTU Rankings, is now available. Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) continues to hold an excellent position and ranks in top 200 in the overall ranking. The university holds the 181st position worldwide and 63rd in Europe. According to the NTU rankings by fields ULisboa is among the 145 best universities in the world.

Among the 25 subjects assessed, ULisboa leads 15 at national level, ranks 14th in the “Top 150” and 19th in the “Top 200”. ULisboa is best positioned in Civil Engineering (31), Mechanical Engineering (66), Chemical Engineering (79) and Environmental Science and Engineering (93).

ULisboa keeps its prominent position in the overall ranking by subjects, namely in Mathematics (106), Space Science (123), Electrical Engineering (126) and Physics (133).

The university maintained its position within the top 200 of NTU rankings by fields: Agriculture (70), Natural Sciences (117) and Social Sciences (194).

ULisboa is once again the best ranked Portuguese university, followed by the University of Porto, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and University of Coimbra.

The 2021 edition of the NTU Rankings is led by Harvard University, followed by Stanford University and the University of Toronto.

The “Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities” is released by National Taiwan University, since 2007, and is also known as NTU Rankings. This year, 1,417 universities were selected, with 800 universities’ ranking being issued.

The NTU ranking also lists the best 500 universities in 6 major areas that bring together 27 selected subjects. The evaluation is based on the classification of scientific production in the last 11 years (2010-2020), based on 8 indicators. The performance measurements are composed of 8 indicators. These indicators together represent three different criteria of scientific paper performance: research productivity (accounting for 25% of the score), research impact (35%), and research excellence (40%).