1st Medicine faculty, Charles University, Prague

Charles University, in this year´s edition of the two most respected worldwide evaluations of universities in the so called The ranking list THES and the Shanghai ranking list, moved a few steps higher being placed among three hundred best universities from more than 17 thousand facilities all over the world. Both ranking lists monitor only institutions with major research activitis. The THES criteria fulfil 604 universities among which Charles University ended this year as the 261st, which is a considerable improvement compared with the last year´s 290th place. The Shanghai ranking list evaluates two thousand universities among which this year Charles university occupies the 252nd place (last year it was the 297th). In the number of 604 universities monitored in detail (THES), Charles University ended as the 261st (last year the 290th) and in the competition of 2,000 universities (Shanghai list) it was placed as the 252nd(last year the 297th). Charles University therefore belongs among 1.5% of the best world universities and is traditionally the best in the Czech Republic.