DNU Rankings

The annual academic rating of Ukrainian higher education institutions “Top 200 Ukraine 2024” has been published. This year, with a total index of 18.46, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University took the 16th place, which is one step better than last year's result in the national table.

In total, the professional ranking of 2024 traditionally covered 200 universities in Ukraine. A comprehensive assessment of their activities was carried out on the basis of a multi-criteria approach – a set of 10 rating indicators (6 international and 4 national) and their weighting factors.

According to 6 indicators, DNU is the leader of regional Dnipro universities, 4 of which even ensured our entry into the TOP-10 universities of Ukraine in 2024.

DNU is also a regional leader in terms of ranking, which shows the arithmetic mean of the ranking places according to the applications of applicants and the average competitive score (41.5). That is, the best applicants of the region come to us!

The overall ranking of DNU was influenced by the indicator reflecting the rating of accreditation cases of the NAQA for 2019-2023. During the war years, most of DNU's educational programs were accredited under a simplified procedure, which gives a minimum score in the ranking. For example, in the academic year 2022-2023, 32 educational programs were accredited at DNU, 29 of which were accredited under the simplified wartime procedure, and in the academic year 2021-2022 - 23 out of 24, respectively.

The university has more than 100 certificates of accreditation of specialties, the validity of which has been extended in accordance with paragraph 1 of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On the peculiarities of accreditation of educational programs for which higher education students are trained under martial law” of 16.03.2022 № 295, which reduces the urgent need for accreditation of educational programs in the NAQA.

In general, DNU is enrolling in 213 educational programs at three levels of higher education in accordance with the license to conduct educational activities in the field of higher education. The educational process is currently underway in 254 educational programs.

In the ranking of winners of scientific competitions, DNU ranks the 24th in the country, and the 22nd in the ranking by the number of patents obtained.

The ranking of Ukrainian universities is being conducted for the eighteenth time by the Center for International Projects “Euroeducation” in partnership with the international group of experts IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.

The ranking took into account current trends in the development of higher education, which is undergoing changes and heavy losses as a result of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. In particular, the IREG Berlin Principles, approved by the participants of the second meeting, and IREG recommendations were taken into account. The basic principles for determining the rankings of the Top 200 Ukraine 2024 were: ensuring openness, transparency, objectivity and independence of university rankings; taking into account the comprehensiveness and diversity of university activities; and prioritizing European integration processes.

According to the authoritative academic ranking of Webometrics, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University took the 16th place in the all-Ukrainian ranking and became the undisputed leader in the Dnipro region again.

Ranking Web is a ranking of representation of universities in the virtual space that uses both webometric and bibliometric indicators. The main target of the ranking is to promote open access to the knowledge which is generated by the world's universities and to increase and disseminate high-quality scientific content on the Internet.

According to the July 2023 version of the Webometrics ranking, the best higher educational establishments in the Dnipro region took the following places among domestic universities:

In general, the largest ranking system of the world universities today, Webometrics Ranking of World's Universities, processes web indicators of more than 20,000 universities worldwide. The Webometrics Ranking of World's Universities is based on a special methodology developed according to the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, defined by UNESCO, based on independent, objective, and open data on the integration of higher education institutions in the Internet. The ranking is conducted by the Cybermetrics Lab research group of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC, Madrid) twice a year – in January and July. Based on a combined indicator, the ranking takes into account the number of pages indexed by search engines on university websites, external links, and citations of these resources.

According to the American rating portal AcademicInfluence.com, which assesses the influence of higher educational establishments in the academic world, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is among the world's top 300 universities for mathematics training. Among the more than 6000 educational establishments represented at the ranking, our university took 275th place in this category.

According to the Academic Influence developers, the top three spheres of the influence of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University also include the fields of study "Communications" - 977th and "Literature" - 1019th places, respectively.

In the InfluentialSchools sub-rating, which assesses the level of influence of the 50 best Ukrainian universities for 2000-2022, DNU ranks 11th. This is the highest result among the establishments of the Dnipro region. In total, four universities in the Dnipro region were included in this American ranking.

New Scopus Rating: DNU is the 7th by the Number of Indexed Publications

The annual ranking of Ukrainian higher education institutions according to the SciVerse Scopus database was published. A total of 204 Ukrainian higher education institutions with separate Affiliation IDs in the official Scopus list were evaluated.

The results of the Scopus database ranking are traditionally based on the citation rates of scientific articles published by educational institutions or their specialists. In particular, in the national ranking table, all Ukrainian universities are ranked by the Hirsch index, a quantitative indicator based on the number of scientific publications and the number of citations.

Thus, in 2023, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University has the following results:
- 7th place in Ukraine - by the number of indexed publications (5009 scientific publications);
-10th place - by the number of citations (total citations of scientific publications - 24102);
- 14th place - overall ranking in the SciVerse Scopus scientometric database (H-index 2023 - 52).

The Top 5 higher education institutions of the Dnipro region in terms of overall indicators are as follows: Dnipro State Medical University - 13th place (H-index - 53, 833 publications, 20217 citations); Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology - 16th place (H-index - 48, 1883 publications, 13612 citations); Dnipro University of Technology - 29th place (H-index - 36, 11928 publications, 7767 citations); Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University - 31st place (Н-index - 43, 4423 publications, 235 citations).

For reference:
The Scopus bibliographic and abstract database of Elsevier Corporation is a tool for tracking the citation of articles published by a higher education institution or its employees in scientific journals. Scopus data is also used to compile other rankings of the world’s leading universities, such as: Times Higher Education or QS World University Rankings.

In general, the Scopus database constantly indexes more than 20,000 scientific publications in the fields of engineering, medicine, and humanities. In addition, it includes publications of scientific journals, conference proceedings, and book publications.

According to the results of the Consolidated Ranking of Higher Educational Establishments of Ukraine in 2023, compiled by the educational information resource Osvita.UA, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University has been recognized as the best university in Dnipro and the Central region of Ukraine again.

The traditional annual ranking of Ukrainian universities covered the results of 239 higher education institutions this time. DNU has improved its position by 6 positions and has risen from the 20th place (2022) to 14-15, having gained the same number of points as Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University.

As at the previous year's rankings, the data from the most authoritative national rankings of higher educational establishments among experts and the media were used to compile the Consolidated Ranking of Ukrainian Universities in 2023: Scopus "TOP-200 Ukraine" and "NMT Score for Contract", each of which used different criteria for evaluation.

In fact, Dnipro National University demonstrated the highest positions among regional universities and, by the sum of points, confidently placed at the top of the ranking of universities in Dnipro and the Central region of Ukraine.

Traditionally, DNU also entered the TOP-10 classical universities of Ukraine, where it ranks 9th.

IHBI, the international agency for public, corporate and private rankings, has released the World Ranking of the Best Rectors and Universities 2023. The Rector of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Sergiy Okovytyy, was included in the Top 10 Best Rectors of Ukraine and the Top 1000 Best Rectors of the World.

The methodology of the World Ranking of the Best Chancellors and Universities, 2023 is based on an activity-based approach. Specifically, the ranking is based on six criteria that allow us to objectively and impartially assess the quality and results of the actual work of chancellors and universities in different countries for the benefit of their citizens. These are the level of professional development of employees, achievements, international cooperation, research activities, the impact of universities on the development of the world and the countries in which they are located, the transformation of the environment, and the presence of outstanding graduates who change the country and the world for the better.

In particular, according to the IHBI ranking, Ukraine is among the Top 50 best countries in the world, where the level of quality and effectiveness of rectors and universities in favor of citizens was the highest. Our country ranked 34th, while the top three countries are as follows: The United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

The best performance indicators were used to determine the overall scores of the rectors and universities around the world. In essence, this is a credit rating that demonstrates the level of quality and efficiency of the work of rectors and universities in favor of students, their parents, and employers.

In total, the IHBI world ranking includes only 30 Ukrainian rectors, including only three representatives of higher educational establishments in Dnipro. These are Andrii Fomenko, Rector of Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, who is ranked 4th in the national ranking; Sergiy Okovytyy, Rector of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, who is ranked 7th; and Oleksandr Aziukovskyi, Rector of the Dnipro University of Technology, who is ranked 24th.

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is among the 20 best universities in Ukraine according to the results of the academic ranking of the higher educational establishments "TOP-200 Ukraine 2023". In particular, with a sum of indices of 14.3, DNU took 17th place in the national table of higher educational establishments.

For the seventeenth year in a row, the annual ranking of Ukrainian universities has been developed by the Center for International Projects "Euroeducation" in cooperation with the international group of experts IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. Traditionally, the ranking table covers 200 Ukrainian higher educational establishments, but this year it includes 202 establishments (two universities with the same indicators are ranked 121 and 166). Dnipro region is in the TOP-20 of educational establishments of the country in 2023 and is represented by two universities - Dnipro University of Technology (12th place, total index - 13.8) and our Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, respectively.

In 2023, the methodology for determining the best higher educational establishments in Ukraine underwent certain changes. Namely, the current ranking took into account current trends in the development of higher education, which continues to undergo profound changes, including as a result of the impact of the COVID-2019 pandemic and russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The experts took into account the outcomes of the international conferences IREG 2022, IREG 2023, and the Berlin Principles approved by the participants of the second IREG meeting. Based on the conclusions of these conferences, the authors of the ranking used multi-criteria approaches to evaluating the activities of higher educational establishments. Large amounts of data that can be obtained from open sources were processed and their validity was checked.

In general, the assessment of Ukrainian universities in 2023 was based on six international and four national indicators. Among them, the highest weighting coefficients were given to academic, research and publishing, and international activities of the institution; research achievements (assessed by comparing university websites), citation of research papers in scientific journals, quality of presentation, and popularity of the institution in the Internet space, and achievements in terms of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The South Korean web portal Study Abroad Aide has published a ranking of the best universities for international students – World Rankings for Best Universities for International Students 2023-2024. Oles Honchar Dnipro National University took the 11th place among 25 higher education institutions of Ukraine recognized as the best for foreign applicants.

Traditionally, DNU demonstrates the highest results among Dnipro regional educational institutions. In total, three universities from Dnipro made it to the top 25 universities in Ukraine – our Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, as well as Dnipro State Medical University and Dnipro University of Technology. These institutions were ranked 18th and 21st in the national ranking.

In total, the Study Abroad Aide ranking table represented more than 8,000 higher education institutions from 72 countries. The methodology of their ranking took into account the academic reputation of institutions from reputable sources and the share of foreign students in the total contingent.

2022

 

According to the monitoring data as of January 2022, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University has risen one position in the national table of the authoritative academic rating Webometrics. DNU currently ranks 11th among higher education institutions in Ukraine.

DNU is the leader in quoting Google Scholar among the region's universities

For the second year in a row, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is the first among the universities of the Dnipro region and the 16th in Ukraine in the Transparent Ranking: Top Universities by Citations in Top Google Scholar Profiles rating. 



Oles Honchar Dnipro National University entered the Quacquarelli Symonds ranking for the first time and immediately took 11th place.


Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is on the 4th place among Ukrainian high educational institutions in the ranking of the best universities in the world Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022.


Oles Honchar Dnipro National University took the 10th place among higher education institutions of Ukraine in the authoritative international scientometric rating The SCImago Institutions Rankings 2021 (SIR).

In addition, among all 39 Ukrainian HEIs (out of 7533 educational institutions in the world represented in SIR 2021) DNU was the best university in Ukraine in the fields of "Business, Management and Accounting", "Economics and Finance", "Social Sciences", as well as the 4th place in the fields of "Ecology and Agricultural and Biological Sciences" and the 6th – in the field of "Earth Sciences".

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is recognized as the leader of the Dnipro region and the 20th in the Ukrainian national rating in the ranking of the influence of the world's universities Influential Schools