Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) – a UK-based, prestigious organisation specializing in education and study abroad – publishes its world ranking of the world's top universities once a year. According to the QS World University Rankings 2025, published on 4 June, the University of Szeged has improved its international ranking by more than 30 places this year: now ranked 570th compared to 601-610 last year. The top three of the 11 Hungarian institutions on the list were closely ranked. The University of Szeged came in second, with only 6 places behind.

The QS Excellence Ranking assesses the world's higher education institutions according to nine indicators: Academic recognition (30%), employer feedback (15%), faculty to student ratio (10%), citation rate of academic work (20%), international students (5%) and international faculty to researcher ratio (5%), international diversity of research collaborations (5%), the placement rate of graduates and the number of alumni with a high impact in their field (5%), as well as the efforts made for social and environmental sustainability and organisational governance aspects (5%).

The full ranking of higher education is available here: QS WUR 2024/2025.