Heidelberg Excellently Represented in Shanghai Subject Ranking

Heidelberg University ranks among the world's best in the fields of medical technology and clinical medicine. In the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020, medical technology places twelfth and clinical medicine 16th (previously 35th), an improvement of 19 places. This puts each of these subjects first in Germany, and with public health it is achieved by a third discipline from the field of medicine. Public health climbed to 47th position internationally, moving up from the 51-to-75 ranking group. In the natural sciences, Heidelberg physics is now among the world's 50 best, rising to 44th internationally and placed second in Germany. Also ranking second in Germany are the biological sciences (jointly with another German university) and biotechnology, which falls in the engineering category. In the worldwide comparison, both subjects fall within the 51-to-75 ranking group.