The Budapest-based medical higher education institution Semmelweis University has moved up 12 places from last year in the recently published U.S. News 2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings to 31st position in cardiac and cardiovascular systems. This year, the university has been listed in 14 medical and health sciences disciplines and is ranked number one in most of these in Hungary.
Semmelweis University has been listed in the U.S. News 2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings in 14 medical and health sciences disciplines, as opposed to 9 last year. As in previous years, the university has again achieved its highest ranking in the category “Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems,” improving 12 places from last year to become 31st in the world in this field, 11th in the European Union, with no Asian university ahead of it.
This means that Semmelweis has surpassed universities such as the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sorbonne University in Paris, King’s College London, or Boston University and Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Harvard University is at the top of the list.
In terms of ranking indicators for this subject area, Semmelweis University scored particularly well in the so-called “Normalized citation impact” (citation rate in the field), where it was ranked 8th in the world. But it also ranks in the top 20 in terms of “International collaboration,” “Percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited,” and “Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1% most cited.”
As Dr. Béla Merkely, Rector and Director of the Városmajor Heart and Vascular Center emphasized that the Heart and Vascular Center is the flagship of Semmelweis University in terms of both science and patient care, a leading center in its field at a national, regional, and European level.
Today, cardiovascular diseases are still the most frequent cause of serious illness and death in the world, and especially in Central and Eastern Europe. That is why it is so important that we are excelling in this field, and that due to our scientific research we can directly contribute to improving patients’ chances of recovery and providing the best care, he said.
Dr. Béla Merkely stressed that during Hungary’s EU Council presidency, the top priority of the health sector was to combat cardiovascular diseases and to develop a common EU action plan as Hungary was committed to the prevention and effective treatment of cardiovascular diseases. He added that according to the recent ranking, Semmelweis University had managed to develop even further in the number and citation rates of scientific publications. He said he was proud that their patients received the same level of care as in any leading European or American heart and vascular center. They are among the first in the world to introduce the latest procedures, pharmacotherapies, and treatments with medical devices. To this end, the center has undergone a number of upgrades in recent years, and a new seven-story building is being added to the institution as part of the ongoing Városmajor 70 project.
Among other things, the development aims to make the institution the largest heart transplant center in Europe, which is currently one of the top 10 heart transplant centers in the world, according to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (IHSLT), the international organization that keeps a record of data published by different centers on heart and lung transplantation. In addition to transplantation and other interventions, scientific research in the center, that is, individual surgical solutions, 3D research, biobanking, cell, stem cell, and animal research, could have contributed to the ranking in cardiology, Dr. Béla Merkely said.
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