«The University of Lisbon (ULisboa) was ranked among the 250 the best world universities in the recently published Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2014 of the University of Jiaotong in Shanghai, China.

(…) In the words of the Chancellor of ULisboa, Professor António Cruz Serra, ULisboa “occupies a very prestigious position in the Shanghai ranking, the leading and most authoritative league table of world universities. It is the first Portuguese university to be ranked in 200th range position on the global level”. He added that Ulisboa is among the 80 best European colleges. The “excellent rank” of ULisboa in ARWU 2014 is, according to the Chancellor of ULisboa, essentially related to the “pooling of all research work and the excellent performance of the entire university which, for the first time, has been evaluated after the merger of what used to be the University of Lisbon and the Technical University of Lisbon”.

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Source: http://www.ulisboa.pt