CWUR World University Ranking 2025:
The University of Hohenheim is one of the top 4.2 percent of universities worldwide. [02.06.25]
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) lists the University of Hohenheim in 881st place out of a total of 21,462 universities worldwide.
It garnered high scores particularly for its research strength: The University of Hohenheim is one of the top 4.2 percent of universities worldwide. That was the result of the CWUR World University Ranking for 2025, which has been published today. In a global comparison, it lists the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart in 881st place out of more than 21,000 universities. Details of the CWUR World University Ranking 2025: cwur.org/2025.php
The CWUR ranking is based on objective criteria and not on surveys or information provided by the universities themselves. Among other aspects, the research performance, the quality of teaching, the academic excellence of the faculties, and the academic and professional success of the alumni are evaluated.
The criteria were evaluated on a scale of 0 to 100. The University of Hohenheim achieved 71.4 points here.
The top three universities in the current CWUR ranking are the same as last year: Harvard University, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Stanford University (all in the USA).
Good ratings in other leading rankings too
The University of Hohenheim scores well in leading subject rankings, particularly in the areas of agricultural research and food sciences but also with its business and economic sciences:
- The renowned research ranking of the National Taiwan University (NTU Ranking) listed the University as no. 1 in Germany, no. 15 in Europe, and no. 53 in the world. Each year, the NTU evaluates all international scientific publications for the globally respected ranking, assessing their number and quality. The latest issue was published in September 2024.
Press release: https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/press-release?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=63526&cHash=e68d580ec589d22f012ad21cb0d6c682
- In THE Ranking by Subject 2025 by the “Times Higher Education” (THE), the University of Hohenheim put in a stellar performance in two areas: In life sciences, it is one of the world's best 201-250 out of 1,143 ranked universities. In business and economics, it is in the top 251-300 out of 990 universities. The ranking was published in January 2025.
Press release: https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/press-release?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=64757&cHash=838c5dd39f217a05d135cb9b9d6f0854
- The current Best Global Universities Ranking 2024-2025 places the University of Hohenheim’s food science and technology second in Germany, with agricultural research coming third in its field. The subject ranking of the U.S. News & World Report journal is based on the analysis of Clarivate and takes into account research performance and international reputation. It was published in June 2024.
To the ranking: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings
- The influential QS World University Ranking by Subject lists the University of Hohenheim’s agricultural research including food science 2nd in Germany, 10th in Europe, and 26th worldwide. The analysis by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a British education provider, annually ranks the best universities primarily by research strength and examines factors such as academic reputation, publications, and citations of individual publications. The most recent subject ranking was published in March 2025.
Press release: https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/press-release?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=65209&cHash=a72976e6fe6ed1cfd30eea4334ed9808
BACKGROUND: CWUR World University Ranking
The Center for World University Rankings CWUR in the United Arab Emirates has been publishing academic rankings since 2012. The World University Ranking evaluates universities on the basis of seven indicators. The quality of teaching accounts for 25 percent of the ranking and is measured on the basis of the academic success of alumni – in each case in relation to the size of the university. The professional positioning of graduates is just as heavily weighted (25 percent). The academic quality of the faculty is taken into account at 10 percent, measured by the number of lecturers honored with prestigious academic awards.
Research performance is evaluated according to four different criteria and counts for a total of 40 percent (total number of publications, number of publications in high-ranking journals, number of publications in particularly influential journals, number of citations). A total of 21,462 universities were evaluated in the current ranking.
Additional information
CWUR World University Ranking 2025: https://cwur.org/2025.php
All rankings can be found at https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/rankings
Text: Elsner
