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University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland *University

Switzerland

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Foundation: 1998

Mission: The HES-SO provides practice-oriented tertiary education at the university level which is primarily a continuation of basic vocational training. Its training courses are sanctioned by a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the HES-SO. The offer also includes postgraduate studies and professional development. The HES-SO carries out applied research and development projects, the results of which it integrates into its courses. It provides services to third parties and ensures exchanges with the practical world. The HES-SO encourages the transfer of knowledge, technologies and artistic practices. It is multidisciplinary and oriented towards innovation and creativity. It contributes to the broadening of knowledge and its development for the benefit of students and society. It also seeks to ensure sustainable economic, social, ecological, environmental and cultural development and takes into account bilingualism in the cantons concerned. The HES-SO collaborates with other education and research institutions in Switzerland and abroad.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.hes-so.ch

Subordinate organizations:

  • Haute Ecole Specialisee de la Suisse Occidentale
54th
Overall percentile
44th
Research percentile
57th
Innovation percentile
56th
Societal percentile

Evolution of the institution

The following data gives a quick reading on the scientific performance in the last years. The research ranking refers to the volume, impact and quality of the institution's research output. The innovation ranking is calculated on the number of patent applications of the institution and the citations that its research output receives from patents. Finally, the societal ranking is based on the number of pages of the institution's website and the number of backlinks and mentions from social networks.

Compared to its context

The result of the evaluation of the institution can be compared to obtain a view of the country, the region to which it belongs and the institutions of the world, placing it in their respective positions.

Compared to All sectors (percentiles)
Compared to Universities sector (percentiles)

Ranks by Subject areas/categories

We have divided the scientific output of the institution into 19 large areas of knowledge and the following table shows only the ranks in different territorial domains achieved by the institution in each of the areas. For an institution to have a presence in an area, it is necessary that it exceed in the last year a minimum output threshold equivalent to twice the percentage that this area represents in the world. If you need scientific indicators on these areas visit Scopus and/or SciVal.

 
AreaWorldWestern EuropeOECDSwitzerland
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +2883rd957th1766th22nd
Arts and Humanities 1202nd509th947th16th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2735th1019th2010th31st
Business, Management and Accounting 1438th501st917th13th
Chemistry 3998th1150th2225th32nd
Computer Science 2109th685th1324th21st
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1585th550th978th17th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1696th531st1011th15th
Energy 2359th652nd1241st17th
Engineering +2469th792nd1465th24th
Environmental Science 2380th742nd1359th20th
Mathematics 1576th516th994th18th
Medicine +4178th1312th2767th41st
Physics and Astronomy 2046th703rd1333rd17th
Psychology 1781st687th1402nd22nd
Social Sciences +1964th664th1310th23rd

Publishing profile

These are the journals used by the institution's researchers to publish their work in the last year. The size of each circle represents the value of the SJR of the publication, and its spatial position represents its subject matter.

This visualizatión allows you to identify the knowledge areas where the institution has published, recognize the prestige of the scientific journals in which the institution knowledge has been published, and identify predominant scientific communities.

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