Top Universities in Azerbaijan

27 universities in Azerbaijan with a measured position.

#UniversityCityWorld rankIn-countryCitations
1 Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts not ranked #25 28
2 Baku State University not ranked #1 90,572
3 Azerbaijan State University of Economics not ranked #2 51,823
4 Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy not ranked #3 46,680
5 Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry not ranked #5 31,310
6 Western University not ranked #6 30,107
7 Khazar University not ranked #4 29,963
8 Azerbaijan University not ranked #7 24,618
9 Azerbaijan Medical University not ranked #8 24,102
10 Azerbaijan Technical University not ranked #9 14,028
11 Nakhchivan State University not ranked #10 4,300
12 Azerbaijan State Pedagogic University not ranked #11 4,083
13 Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction not ranked #13 3,421
14 The Academy of Public Administration not ranked #12 3,143
15 Ganja State University not ranked #14 2,378
16 Azerbaijan State Agricultural Academy not ranked #15 2,218
17 Qafqaz University not ranked #21 1,910
18 National Aviation Academy not ranked #18 1,909
19 Odlar Yurdu University not ranked #20 1,825
20 Lankaran State University not ranked #19 1,813
21 Sumgait State University not ranked #17 1,772
22 Baku Business University not ranked #22 1,144
23 Azerbaijan University of Languages not ranked #16 651
24 Azerbaijan State Marine Academy not ranked #23 514
25 Baku Slavic University not ranked #24 156
26 Azerbaijan State Customs Committee Academy not ranked — 83
27 Baku Academy of Music not ranked #26 21

What the two columns mean

In-country is the position the ranking record gives the university among those in its own country, and it is often the more useful number: a university ranked 480th in the world may still be third at home. It is carried over as published, so it does not always follow the order of the other two columns. World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.

The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.

Rankings in other countries