The Google College Rankings

We have been surveying many Google domains in Europe for insights into the best European universities, so let’s take a look this time at Poland.

Following our usual practice, we can search google.pl either on the English word university (using a clean browser as always, and applying our advanced filtering system), or we can search on the Polish word uniwersytet instead. Let’s start with the local-language rankings:

1. Uniwersytet Wrocławski
2. Uniwersytet Warszawski
3. Uniwersytet Łódzki
4. Uniwersytet Szczeciński
5. Uniwersytet Jagielloński
6. Uniwersytet Gdański
7. Uniwersytet Rzeszowski - Aktualności
8. Uniwersytet Opolski
9. Uniwersytet Âlàski
10. Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika

The English-language search gives us substantially different results:

1. University of Warsaw
2. Jagiellonian University
3. Gdansk University of Technology
4. University of Rzeszów
5. Nicolaus Copernicus University
6. Wroclaw University
7. Wroclaw University of Technology
8. AGH University of Science and Technology
9. the University of Szczecin
10. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Only the University of Warsaw appears in the top three in both languages, and the English-language results turn up a number of more technically-oriented schools, which may well devote more of their energies to modern globalized subjects than to traditional historical, literary, and linguistic fields where the local language would occupy pride of place.