In the newly published Webometrics Ranking of World Universities 2015, the Jagiellonian University took first place in Poland. Among 24 thousand academic institutions from all over the world that were included in the analysis, our university was ranked 287th. Only two other Polish higher education institutions, the University of Warsaw and the AGH University of Science and Technology, are listed in the prestigious top 500, placed 323rd and 386th, respectively.

As in previous years, the list is topped by American institutions: Harvard University (1st position), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2nd place) and Stanford University (3rd place).

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is published twice a year by the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). The analysis focuses on the universities' communication via the Internet and does not take into account their research achievements per se.

The universities are ranked on the basis of such criteria as: impact, that is how often other websites redirect users to the website of a given university, presence, that is the number of pages within the institution's domain, openness: the number of documents (e.g doc, pdf) published on the website, as well as excellence, which includes the institution's part in the most frequently cited research. The methodology may be changed from edition to edition.