Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a company specialized in analyzing the educational market, along with Times Higher Education Supplement, ranks the Bucharest University in the worldwide top 500 superior education institutions.

The Bucharest University ranked 277th in Arts and Humanity, 330th in Social Sciences, 336th in Engineering and IT, 427 in Life Sciences and Bio-medical Sciences, as well as 447th in Nature Sciences.

The evaluation criteria included the amount of quoted in Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, as well as the number of articles published by each university between 2001 and 2006.