Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, resp. "Shanghai Ranking") is a global university ranking that has been released since 2003 and is published by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2009, the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has published the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).

In the current Academic Ranking of World Universities 2024 the University of Cologne is ranked place 6-11 nationally and place 151-200 internationally.

Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS)

More than 1900 universities are ranked in five different disciplines and in 55 subjects. Depending on the subject, between 200 and 500 universities are ranked each year.

Current Results GRAS Ranking 2024:

• "Sociology" ranked 1^stplace nationally and place 51-75 internationally.
• "Management" ranked 4t^h place nationally (with Berlin School of Economics & Law, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Leuphana University Lüneburg, the Universities of Leipzig, Mannheim and Münster and the University of Munich (LMU)), ranked place 201-300 internationally.
• "Business Administration" ranked 4^th place nationally (with Freie Universität Berlin, Technical University of Munich (TUM), University of Bayreuth, University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg), ranked place 201-300 internationally.
• "Political Sciences" ranked on 9^th place nationally (with Humboldt-University Berlin, the TU Munich and the University of Mainz), ranked place 101-150 internationally.
• "Economics" 6th place nationally (with University of Bielefeld, Freie Universität Berlin, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Mannheim), ranked place 151-200 internationally.

Indicators and weighting

The GRAS uses four to five indicators, depending on the subject. It measures and compares research output (Q1), the scope of the research, mapped by citations (CNCI), international cooperation (IC), research quality (number of publications in TOP journals) and the prestige of researchers (TOP awards).

Q1

CNCI

IC

TOP Journals

TOP Awards

prestige of the researchers
represented by the number of significant research awards in an academic subject (selected within the framework of the Shanghai Ranking's Academic Excellence Survey). The indicator is only used in Economics (Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics), Statistics (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents' Award) and Political Science (Johan Skytte Prize).

Gewichtung nach Fach

Subject	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP Journals	TOP Awards
Economics	150	50	10	100	100
Statistics	150	50	10	100	100
Political Sciences	150	50	10	100	20
Sociology	150	50	10	100	0
Communication	150	50	10	100	0
Business Administration	150	50	10	100	0
Finance	150	50	10	100	0
Management	150	50	10	100	0

More information on the Website of the: Academic Ranking of World Universities

UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences