Budapest’s Semmelweis University (SE) has been ranked among the world’s best in 14 fields, including cardiovascular medicine, which has moved up 12 places from last year’s ranking to 31st in the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings.
Béla Merkely, the rector of the university, told Hungary’s M1 news channel that this ranking also has a strong international resonance, as cardiovascular medicine is a prominent field in the world today, with the highest number of cases and deaths being related to this group of diseases.
“To achieve this result, it had to beat hundreds of universities in the U.S. and Europe, such as the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, the Sorbonne University in Paris, King’s College London, and Boston and Washington Universities in the United States,” pointed out the rector.
He noted that in the last 15 years, systematic development has been taking place at the university, including the Heart and Vascular Clinic on the Buda side of the capital, as well as in the field of infrastructure and human resources. He stressed that the clinic has performed more than 15,000 surgeries and there is no surgery that it cannot perform.
Merkely added that the university is also playing a major role in the development of healthcare in the region and that during Hungary’s EU Presidency, the key priority for health is to tackle cardiovascular disease and develop a joint EU action plan.
