Czechia falls to 15th in ranking of education and research quality in EU

Czechia has fallen to joint 15th place out of 27 in the EU in terms of quality of education and research, according to the latest Prosperity and Financial Health Index ranking. In almost all 10 indicators used to calculate Czechia's overall position, the country scored somewhere in the middle compared to other member states. It achieved its best result in research expenditure, where it came in 10th, while its worst was in the share of young people with tertiary education degrees, where it ranks 23rd.

The Index, a joint research project by Česká spořitelna, the Europe in Data portal and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, measures the prosperity of the Czech Republic and the financial health of Czechs in the long term based on 10 "pillars", one of which is quality of education and research.