World University Index

QS World University Rankings: Europe

2026 edition. Published by Quacquarelli Symonds.

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Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

Rank Institution Claim
1 University of Oxford 1st in the world
2 ETH Zurich 2nd in the world
=3 University College London 3rd in the world
=3 Imperial College London 3rd in the world
5 University of Cambridge 5th in the world
6 University of Edinburgh 6th in the world
7 King's College London 7th in the world
8 PSL University 8th in the world
9 University of Manchester 9th in the world
10 EPFL 10th in the world
11 Delft University of Technology 11th in the world
=12 Technical University of Munich 12th in the world
=12 Lund University 12th in the world
14 London School of Economics and Political Science 14th in the world
15 University of Bristol 15th in the world
16 University of Leeds 16th in the world
=17 University of Warwick 17th in the world
=17 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 17th in the world
19 University of Glasgow 19th in the world
20 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 20th in the world
21 University of Birmingham 21st in the world
22 Uppsala University 22nd in the world
23 Heidelberg University 23rd in the world
24 University of Amsterdam 24th in the world
25 University of Nottingham 25th in the world
26 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 26th in the world
27 Université Paris-Saclay 27th in the world
28 University of Sheffield 28th in the world
29 Trinity College Dublin 29th in the world
30 KU Leuven 30th in the world
31 Sorbonne University 31st in the world
32 Durham University 32nd in the world
33 University of Southampton 33rd in the world
34 University of Zurich 34th in the world
35 Aalto University 35th in the world
36 Newcastle University 36th in the world
37 Queen Mary University of London 37th in the world
38 University College Dublin 38th in the world
39 Freie Universität Berlin 39th in the world
40 University of Vienna 40th in the world
41 Technische Universität Berlin 41st in the world
=42 Aarhus University 42nd in the world
=42 Ghent University 42nd in the world
44 University of St Andrews 44th in the world
=45 University of Copenhagen 45th in the world
=45 Politecnico di Milano 45th in the world
47 University of Helsinki 47th in the world
=48 University of Geneva 48th in the world
=48 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 48th in the world
=48 University of Liverpool 48th in the world
51 University of Exeter 51st in the world
52 Utrecht University 52nd in the world
54 RWTH Aachen University 54th in the world
57 Leiden University 57th in the world
58 University of Bath 58th in the world
62 Cardiff University 62nd in the world
65 Lancaster University 65th in the world
66 Stockholm University 66th in the world
69 University of Bonn 69th in the world
71 University of Freiburg 71st in the world
73 Chalmers University of Technology 73rd in the world
74 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 74th in the world
75 University of Gothenburg 75th in the world
76 University of Reading 76th in the world
77 Sapienza University of Rome 77th in the world
78 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 78th in the world
83 University of Göttingen 83rd in the world
=86 Loughborough University 86th in the world
=86 University of Tübingen 86th in the world
88 Maastricht University 88th in the world
94 University of Bern 94th in the world
95 University College Cork 95th in the world
97 University of Strathclyde 97th in the world
104 TU Wien 104th in the world
105 University of Bergen 105th in the world
=106 Radboud University Nijmegen 106th in the world
=106 University of Twente 106th in the world
109 University of Sussex 109th in the world
111 University of Surrey 111th in the world
124 Istanbul Technical University 124th in the world
125 University of Leicester 125th in the world
131 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 131st in the world
132 Dublin City University 132nd in the world
138 University of Turku 138th in the world
139 University of Limerick 139th in the world
141 University of Pisa 141st in the world
142 Tilburg University 142nd in the world
147 Université Paris Cité 147th in the world
152 University of Oulu 152nd in the world
162 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 162nd in the world
169 Brunel University of London 169th in the world
178 Aix-Marseille Université 178th in the world
181 University of Konstanz 181st in the world
197 University of Potsdam 197th in the world
199 Hacettepe University 199th in the world
203 Manchester Metropolitan University 203rd in the world
204 University of Montpellier 204th in the world
208 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 208th in the world
209 University of Bremen 209th in the world
219 University of Szeged 219th in the world
221 University of Wurzburg 221st in the world
223 University of Eastern Finland 223rd in the world
232 Universidad de Zaragoza 232nd in the world
233 University of Portsmouth 233rd in the world
239 Université de Lille 239th in the world
252 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague 252nd in the world
253 University of Duisburg-Essen 253rd in the world
257 University of Zagreb 257th in the world
264 Yıldız Technical University 264th in the world
273 Saarland University 273rd in the world
295 Bournemouth University 295th in the world
305 AGH University of Krakow 305th in the world
311 Universidade de Vigo 311th in the world
316 Nantes Université 316th in the world
341 University of Stavanger 341st in the world
348 University of Córdoba 348th in the world
367 Ege University 367th in the world
446 Université de Bretagne Occidentale 446th in the world
449 Montanuniversität Leoben 449th in the world
453 Roskilde University 453rd in the world
501 Universidad de Extremadura 501st in the world
521 University of L'Aquila 521st in the world