Austrian Universities in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking: Six Institutions Among the Top 500

Lifestyle & TravelMore+ ♦ Published: September 16, 2025; 23:22 ♦ (Vindobona)

In this year's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), known as the Shanghai Ranking, six Austrian universities made it into the world's top 500. That is two more universities than last year.

The Vienna University of Technology (TU) is also ranked in the top 300 (all 201-300). / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Peter Haas / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

The domestic contingent is once again led by the University of Vienna, which maintains its position in the 101-150 ranking group. This makes it the only Austrian university in the top 200. The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The ranking, compiled annually by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, evaluates the research strength…