In the European regional QS ranking released for the first time this year, BME (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) is the second-best domestic university and ranks 10th among Eastern Europeans.

The creators of the new European ranking evaluated universities from member states of the Council of Europe, placing BME at 238^th. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranked the top 688 universities in 42 countries, including 133 from Eastern Europe, and among them, BME ranked 10^th. Hungary had 15 universities in the ranking, with BME being the second-best based on the assessed indicators.

Among the indicators, BME achieved an outstanding result in the number of international exchange students (52^nd place). In terms of employability, it ranked 126^th, employer reputation 156^th, and sustainability 164^th.

Indicators

Research: Academic reputation (30%), Citations per paper (10%), Papers per Faculty (5%)
Employability: Employer reputation (15%), Employment outcomes (5%)
Education: Faculty Student ratio (5%)
Global Engagement: International research network (10%), International faculty ratio (5%), International students ratio (5%), Outbound exchange students (2.5%), Inbound exchange students (2.5%)
Sustainability: Sustainability (5%)

BME also performed excellently in the QS subject-specific ranking published in March 2023. Among 20,000 institutions assessed by the organization, it ranked 224^th globally in the Engineering and Technology category. In November 2022, Quacquarelli Symonds released a new sustainability ranking, QS Sustainability 2023. BME excelled in this ranking as well, ranking 198^th in the Environmental Impact category as the best Hungarian institution and 23^rd in the sustainability indicator out of 700 ranked institutions. This June, BME advanced 100 places in the QS World Ranking to rank between 741^st and 750^th.

Rector’s Cabinet Communication Directorate