University of Cologne Rankings 2025

Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, University of Cologne has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, University of Cologne stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.

Rated A by Shiksha Grading, University of Cologne is also rated A for courses, such as M.A. and various PG courses. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the University of Cologne courses are in the range of A and B grades.

Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.

Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, University of Cologne ranks #285, which is declining in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #268 in 2024. University of Cologne also ranks #160 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, University of Cologne witnessed a declining trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #146 in 2023.

Check out more details on University of Cologne ranking in the below content.