The brand new Shanghai Tutorial Rating of World Universities was unveiled on August fifteenth. Ranked sixtieth on this planet, Université Paris Cité has seen the most important rise amongst French establishments (up 9 locations), reaching its highest rating since its creation and first look within the rating again in 2020.
Édouard Kaminski, President of Université Paris Cité, feedback:
“We’re delighted with this recognition, which underlines the affect of the analysis carried out by our professors, researchers and analysis assist workers in our laboratories. I want to congratulate and warmly thank our whole neighborhood for its dedication to analysis, and for the standard and affect of its work: this outstanding end result – the perfect achieved by our college since its creation – is at first theirs!
This sixtieth place displays the success of the scientific technique developed collectively by the college and its associate analysis organisations – CNRS, Inserm, Inria and IRD – and, within the area of well being, it displays significantly the success of the affiliation with the Institut Pasteur and the shut hyperlinks with the AP-HP (the general public hospital community of Paris and its area). The popularity of our analysis ecosystem helps the standard and attractiveness of our coaching programmes, together with these provided by the Graduate Faculties, and strengthens our innovation cluster (ValoCité).
Our outstanding progress is a part of the constructive general dynamic within the area, the place we’re growing robust synergies. It has additionally benefited from the insurance policies carried out by the French authorities to assist analysis, notably via our successes within the requires initiatives underneath investments programmes.
Whereas I welcome this end result, which has been achieved in an more and more aggressive worldwide surroundings, I do have some reservations about the way in which wherein the annual fluctuations within the rankings are interpreted within the mild of the long-term nature of analysis, and in regards to the varied limitations of the rankings, specifically the truth that scientific output within the humanities and social sciences isn’t correctly taken under consideration, and the absence of standards referring to the standard of coaching programs.”
