World University Index

QS World University Rankings: Europe

2025 edition. Published by Quacquarelli Symonds.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 ETH Zurich 1st in the world
2 Imperial College London 2nd in the world
3 University of Oxford 3rd in the world
4 University of Cambridge 4th in the world
5 University College London 5th in the world
6 University of Edinburgh 6th in the world
7 University of Manchester 7th in the world
8 King's College London 8th in the world
9 PSL University 9th in the world
10 EPFL 10th in the world
11 Technical University of Munich 11th in the world
12 London School of Economics and Political Science 12th in the world
13 Lund University 13th in the world
14 University of Bristol 14th in the world
15 Delft University of Technology 15th in the world
16 University of Glasgow 16th in the world
17 University of Amsterdam 17th in the world
=18 Heidelberg University 18th in the world
=18 University of Birmingham 18th in the world
20 University of Leeds 20th in the world
21 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 21st in the world
22 University of Warwick 22nd in the world
23 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 23rd in the world
24 University of Nottingham 24th in the world
25 Uppsala University 25th in the world
26 Trinity College Dublin 26th in the world
=27 KU Leuven 27th in the world
=27 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 27th in the world
29 University of Sheffield 29th in the world
30 Université Paris-Saclay 30th in the world
31 Sorbonne University 31st in the world
32 Durham University 32nd in the world
33 University of Copenhagen 33rd in the world
34 University of Southampton 34th in the world
35 Newcastle University 35th in the world
36 University of Zurich 36th in the world
37 University of St Andrews 37th in the world
=38 Politecnico di Milano 38th in the world
=38 Queen Mary University of London 38th in the world
40 Utrecht University 40th in the world
41 Aalto University 41st in the world
42 University of Vienna 42nd in the world
43 Freie Universität Berlin 43rd in the world
=44 Stockholm University 44th in the world
=44 Technische Universität Berlin 44th in the world
46 University of Helsinki 46th in the world
47 Ghent University 47th in the world
48 University of Bologna 48th in the world
=49 University of Exeter 49th in the world
=49 University of Liverpool 49th in the world
52 Leiden University 52nd in the world
=53 Aarhus University 53rd in the world
=53 University of Geneva 53rd in the world
59 RWTH Aachen University 59th in the world
60 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 60th in the world
61 Cardiff University 61st in the world
62 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 62nd in the world
63 University of Bath 63rd in the world
64 Lancaster University 64th in the world
66 Sapienza University of Rome 66th in the world
69 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 69th in the world
72 University of Gothenburg 72nd in the world
75 University of Reading 75th in the world
77 University of Freiburg 77th in the world
78 University of Bonn 78th in the world
79 Chalmers University of Technology 79th in the world
83 University of Göttingen 83rd in the world
=84 Loughborough University 84th in the world
=84 University of Tübingen 84th in the world
87 University of Bern 87th in the world
90 Maastricht University 90th in the world
=105 University College Cork 105th in the world
=105 University of Bergen 105th in the world
108 University of Sussex 108th in the world
109 TU Wien 109th in the world
112 University of Strathclyde 112th in the world
118 University of Twente 118th in the world
120 Radboud University Nijmegen 120th in the world
123 Istanbul Technical University 123rd in the world
124 University of Surrey 124th in the world
126 University of Leicester 126th in the world
128 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 128th in the world
135 University of Turku 135th in the world
136 University of Pisa 136th in the world
145 University of Limerick 145th in the world
152 Dublin City University 152nd in the world
154 Université Paris Cité 154th in the world
156 Brunel University of London 156th in the world
=157 Tilburg University 157th in the world
=157 University of Oulu 157th in the world
164 Aix-Marseille Université 164th in the world
169 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 169th in the world
176 University of Konstanz 176th in the world
193 University of Potsdam 193rd in the world
194 Manchester Metropolitan University 194th in the world
=198 University of Montpellier 198th in the world
=198 Hacettepe University 198th in the world
204 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 204th in the world
209 University of Eastern Finland 209th in the world
211 Universidad de Zaragoza 211th in the world
217 University of Wurzburg 217th in the world
228 University of Szeged 228th in the world
231 University of Bremen 231st in the world
239 University of Portsmouth 239th in the world
243 University of Zagreb 243rd in the world
249 Université de Lille 249th in the world
253 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague 253rd in the world
272 University of Duisburg-Essen 272nd in the world
291 Yıldız Technical University 291st in the world
294 Saarland University 294th in the world
300 Bournemouth University 300th in the world
310 Nantes Université 310th in the world
322 Universidade de Vigo 322nd in the world
328 AGH University of Krakow 328th in the world
340 University of Córdoba 340th in the world
353 University of Stavanger 353rd in the world
363 Ege University 363rd in the world
381 Université Toulouse Capitole 381st in the world
415 Roskilde University 415th in the world
450 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 450th in the world
551 University of L'Aquila 551st in the world