UM Faculty of Law enters top 50 of THE World University Rankings 2019 for Law

In the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for LAW, our Faculty climbs from the 61st to the 46th place. The Faculty also rises ten places in the ranking of European law faculties from place 26 in 2018 to place 16 in 2019.

THE Law

The LAW subject ranking was introduced for the first time in 2018. The THE rankings table for LAW uses the same range of performance indicators as the overall World University Rankings combined with scores provided under the following five categories: Teaching, Research, Citations, International outlook, and Industry income.

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