Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University improved its position and rose to 9th place among higher education institutions in Ukraine according to the results of the rating formed on the basis of data from the international scientometric database Scopus.
The annual ranking, published by Osvita.ua , is based on the citation rates of scientific publications of universities and their scientific and pedagogical staff.
The main evaluation criterion is the Hirsch index (h-index), which reflects both the number of publications and their scientific impact.
According to the results of scientometric monitoring as of April 2026, the university entered the top ten best higher education institutions of Ukraine, confirming the positive dynamics of the development of scientific activity and the growth of international visibility of research.
TOP-10 universities of Ukraine according to Scopus 2026 ranking:
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Sumy State University
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
- Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov
- Danylo Halytskyi Lviv National Medical University
- Lviv Polytechnic National University
- Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University
- Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
The position in the top ten of the Scopus ranking is evidence of the increasing quality of the university’s scientific results, the increase in the level of citation of publications, and active integration into the international scientific space.
The Scopus database indexes over 30,000 scientific publications and is one of the key tools for assessing the effectiveness of scientific activity in the world.