Results in table form

National

Source	Category	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
Financial Times Ranking	European Business Schools	6	7	6	7	-	8	8	8	7	8	8	7	6
	Masters in Management	4	5	6	7	-	7	9	6	6	6	6	5	5
QS World University Ranking	Overall (national)	17	17	17	16	16	18	19
QS World University Ranking by Subject	Social Sciences and Management	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	9
Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)	Overall (national)	6 - 11	6 - 11	6 - 9	6 - 9	7 - 10	8 - 10	8 - 10	8 - 14	16 - 22	15 - 21	9 - 13	8 - 13	9 - 14
Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS)	Finance	-	-	-	-	-	5 - 6	5	4 - 6	4 - 6
	Business Administration	8 - 11	4 - 10	4 - 8	1 - 2	1 - 3	4 - 5	3 - 7	4 - 8	5 - 8
	Management	8 - 21	4 - 12	3 - 7	2 - 3	1 - 2	3 - 7	3	1 - 3	2 - 4
	Economics	6 - 10	6 - 10	5 - 8	6 - 8	4 - 6	4 - 7	3 - 5	4	4 - 8
	Sociology	2 - 4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Political Science	10 - 11	9 - 15	5 - 8	5 - 7	5 - 7	9 - 18	8 - 19	10 - 15
Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking	Overall (national)	14	15	14	18	17	15	16
THE Wolrd University Ranking by Subject	Business and Economics	6 - 7	5 - 6	10 - 14	9 - 12	10 - 12
	Social Sciences	8 - 10	8 - 9	9 - 13	7 - 8
The SCM Journal List	Ranking by analytically-focused journals	2	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Association of Information Systems (AIS)	National	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	3	3	5	2	6	8
Wirtschaftswoche Personalerranking	Business Administration	-	7	5	3	3	3	2	3		4	3	2	3
	Economics	-	5	5	5	4	5	4	4		3	2	4	4
	Information Systems	-	4	4	3	6	6	6	5		4	5	8	8
WirtschaftsWoche research ranking	Business Administration	-	2	-	5	-	2	-	2
	Economics	-	-	4	-	5	-	5	-	3	-	3	-	4

Source	Category	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
Financial Times Ranking	European Business Schools	62	65	71	72	-	75	74	73	71	78	76	74	71
	Masters in Management	37	40	46	54		71	60	63	66	66	66	53	59
QS World University Ranking (WUR)	Overall	272	285	335	311	282	398	308	306	331	347	331	305	243
QS World University Ranking by Subject	Social Sciences and Management	284	279	246	282	252	217	206	242	203	224	200
Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)	Overall	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200	101-150	101-150	101-150	201-300	201-300	151-200	151-200	151-200
Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS)	Finance	-	-	-	-	-	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200
	Business Administration	301-400	201-300	201-300	101-150	101-150	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200
	Management	301-400	201-300	201-300	151-200	101-150	201-300	151-200	101-150	151-200
	Economics	151-200	151-200	151-200	151-200	101-150	101-150	76-100	76-100	101-150
	Sociology	101-150	51-75	43	35	40	43	51-75	76-100
	Political Science	151-200	151-200	101-150	101-150	101-150	201-300	201-300	201-300
Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking	Overall	157	160	146	172	145	157	146	145	170	156
THE World University Ranking by Subject	Business and Economics	126-150	126-150	201-250	251-300	251-300	-	151-175	-	-
	Social sciences	151-175	151-175	176-200	151-175	-	-	-	-	-
The SCM Journal List	Rankings by analytically-focused journals	81	97	97	86	58	46	48	45	42	57	78
Association of Information Systems 8 (AIS 8)*1	Worldwide	46	38	33	53	50	47	35	52	49	69	65	145	197
WirtschaftsWoche - Research Ranking - DACH-Region	Business administration	-	4	-	8	-	4	-	4
	Economics	-	-	7	-	9	-	7	-	5	-	4	-	6

*¹Period under review are the last 5 years

Category	Researcher	Ranking
TOP Researcher in the DACH region	Wolfgang Ketter	13
	Dirk Sliwka	73
	Ulrich Thonemann	81
u40	Anne Burmeister	69
Lifework (Top 200)	Ulrich Thonemann	35
	Dirk Sliwka	46
	Werner Reinarzt	61
	Wolfgang Ketter	78
	Christoph Rosenkranz	84
	Detlef Schoder	115
	Franziska Völckner	150
	Alexander Kempf	167
	Marc Fischer	170
	Bernd Irlenbusch	195


Category	Researcher	Ranking
TOP Researcher in the DACH region	Christopher Roth	7
	Patrick Schmitz	88
	Axel Ockenfels	92
u40	Christopher Roth	5
	Dominik Wied	20
	Christoph Schottmüller	25
	Anna Bindler	67
Lifework (Top 200)	Patrick Schmitz	44
	Axel Ockenfels	95
	Jörg Breitung	162
	Felix Bierbrauer	204