Best Universities in Europe Ranking 2024

It is difficult to determine a definitive list of the best universities in Europe, as rankings can vary depending on the criteria used and different universities excel in different fields.

European university classification standards

QS relies on six main criteria in its ranking of the best universities in Europe:

Academic reputation (40%):
Faculty to student ratio (20%):
Number of citations per article (20%):
Reputation of employers (10%):
Percentage of international students (5%):
Percentage of international faculty members (5%):

European university rankings

Ranking locally	Ranking globally	the University
1	2	Cambridge University
2	3	Oxford university
3	6	Imperial College London
4	7	ETH Zurich Institute
5	9	University College London
6	22	University of Edinburgh
7	24	Paris University of Sciences and Letters
8	32	University of Manchester
9	36	Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
10	37	Technical University of Munich
11	38	Polytechnic Institute of Paris
12	40	King's College London
13	45	London School of Economics and Political Science
15	47	Delft University of Technology
16	53	University of Amsterdam
17	54	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
18	55	University of Bristol
19	59	Sorbonne University
20	61	University of KU Leuven
21	67	University of Warwick
22	71	University of Paris-Saclay
23	73	Royal Institute of Technology KTH
24	75	University of Leeds
25	76	University of Glasgow
26	78	Durham University
27	81	University of Dublin
28	81	University of Southampton
29	84	University of Birmingham
30	85	Lund University
31	87	Lomonosov Moscow State University
32	87	Heidelberg University
33	91	University of Zurich
34	95	University of St Andrews
35	98	Free University of Berlin
36	100	University of Nottingham
37	104	University of Sheffield
38	105	Uppsala University
39	106	RWTH Aachen University
40	107	University of Copenhagen
41	107	Utrecht University
42	109	Aalto University
43	110	Newcastle University
44	115	University of Helsinki
45	117	University of Oslo
46	118	Stockholm University
47	119	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
48	120	Humboldt University of Berlin
49	121	Technical University of Denmark
50	122	Lancaster University
51	123	Politecnico di Milano
52	124	Eindhoven University of Technology
53	124	University of Basel
54	126	Leiden University
55	126	University of Bern
56	128	University of Geneva
57	129	Chalmers University of Technology
58	130	University of Vienna
59	134	Sapienza University of Rome
60	139	University of Groningen
61	143	Aarhus University
62	145	Queen Mary University of London
63	148	University of Bath
64	149	Autonomous University of Barcelona
65	151	Wageningen University and Research
66	153	University of Exeter
67	154	Alma Mater Studiorom - University of Bologna
68	154	Cardiff University
69	154	Technical University of Berlin
70	159	Ghent University
71	164	University of Barcelona
72	167	York University
73	169	University of Reading
74	171	Complutense University of Madrid
75	171	University College Dublin
76	176	Erasmus University Rotterdam
77	176	University of Liverpool
78	180	Catholic University of Louvain
79	184	Technical University of Vienna
80	184	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
81	187	University of Gothenburg
82	189	Free University of Brussels
83	192	Albert Ludwig University Freiburg
84	192	Pont Paris School of Technology
85	199	Autonomous University of Madrid
86	202	Queen's University Belfast
87	205	University of Hamburg
88	207	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
89	208	University of Aberdeen
90	210	University of Twente
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92	213	Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
93	218	University of Sussex
94	219	University of Padova
95	220	University of Lausanne
96	222	Radboud University
97	229	Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg
98	232	University of Göttingen
99	235	Heriot Watt University
100	236	Paris City University
101	239	Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn
102	244	University of Surrey
103	246	Technical University of Darmstadt
104	246	Technical University of Dresden
105	248	Charles University
106	248	University of Antwerp
107	252	Politecnico di Torino
108	253	University of Porto
109	256	Maastricht University
110	259	Vrije Université Brussels
111	262	University of Warsaw
112	266	University of Lisbon
113	268	Linköping University
114	268	University of Cologne
115	272	University of Leicester
116	276	جامعة ميلانو
117	276	University of Strathclyde
118	280	University of Navarra
119	281	University of Bergen
120	289	University of Galway
121	292	Norwegian University of Science and Technology
122	292	University College Cork
123	294	University of Grenoble Alpes
124	295	University of East Anglia
125	302	Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
126	304	Jagiellonian University
127	307	Swansea University
128	310	Pompeu Fabra University
129	312	University of Stuttgart
130	313	University of Oulu
131	315	Saint Petersburg State University
132	315	University of Turku
133	319	Bauman Moscow State Technical University
134	319	Science Po
135	319	Carlos III University of Madrid
136	326	University of Southern Denmark
137	328	The City, University of London
138	328	Swedish Italian University
139	328	University of Paris
140	335	University of Naples
141	336	Aalborg University
142	336	University of Kent
143	342	RUDN UNIVERSITY
144	343	Brunel University London
145	344	University of Aveiro
146	347	National Technical University of Athens
147	349	Polytechnic University of Madrid
148	349	University of Pisa
149	351	Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology
150	351	University of Coimbra
151	354	Università Politécnica de Catalunya
152	358	University of Florence
153	358	University of Tartu
154	362	University of Innsbruck
155	364	University of Turin
156	368	University of Cyprus (UCY)
157	371	Tilburg University
158	374	Birkbeck, University of London
159	375	Ruhr University Bochum
160	381	University of Luxembourg
161	382	University of Montpellier
162	384	University of Münster
163	387	Aix-Marseille University
164	387	Belarusian State University
165	392	National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon
166	396	Justus Liebig
167	396	Kazan University
168	399	University of Health, Safety and Environment
169	400	Masaryk University
170	400	Nova de Lisboa University
171	403	University of Granada
172	413	Oxford Brookes University
173	413	Royal Holloway Business School
174	415	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
175	418	Tomsk State University
176	421	Graz University of Technology
177	421	Novosibirsk State University
178	421	University of Liège
179	421	University of Strasbourg
180	426	University of Limerick
181	428	IE University
182	429	University of Trento
183	431	University of Stirling
184	436	Dublin City University
185	436	University of Tampere
186	436	University of St. Gallen
188	440	Julius Maximilian University
189	441	University of Dundee
190	444	National and Kapodistria University of Athens
191	446	Aston University
192	446	Johannes Kepler University Linz
193	446	University of Jyväskylä
194	452	Claude Bernard Lyon University
195	454	Czech Technical University in Prague
196	454	University of Mannheim
197	459	Essex,University
198	460	University of Potsdam
199	461	Moscow Institute of Engineering Physics
200	461	University of Jena
201	464	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
202	465	Umeå University
203	465	Purdue University
204	469	University of Studies in Pavia
205	473	Ural Federal University
206	473	Vilnius University
207	476	Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
208	478	University of Konstanz
209	479	University of Leipzig
210	481	Bangor University
211	481	Leibniz University Hanover
213	481	University of Milano-Bicocca
214	485	University of Valencia
215	489	University of Rome
216	494	University of Seville
217	498	University of Ulster
218	502	University of Portsmouth
219	505	Catholic University of Sacro Coeur
220	509	University of Bayreuth
221	511	SOAS University of London
222	511	Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse III
223	514	University of Bremen
224	523	University of Zaragoza
225	523	University of Hull
226	526	MGIMO University
227	530	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
228	530	Christian Albrechts University Kiel
229	530	University of Genoa
230	534	Saint Petersburg University
231	534	University of Crete
232	534	University of Salamanca
233	538	University of Alcalá
234	542	ITMO University
235	542	University of Ulm
236	548	Northumbria University Newcastle
237	548	University of Eastern Finland
238	551	Hasselt University
239	556	Politecnico di Bari
240	556	University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
241	561	Plymouth University
242	563	University of Fribourg
243	567	University of Huddersfield
244	571	Coventry University
245	571	Warsaw University of Technology
246	577	University of Tromsø, Arctic University of Norway
247	580	University of Klagenfurt
248	582	Comillas Pontifical University
249	586	Tomsk Polytechnic National Research University
250	590	Manchester Metropolitan University
251	593	Goldsmiths, University of London
252	595	Nottingham Trent University
253	595	Vita Salute San Rafael University
254	600	Saarland University
255	601-610	Abu Akademi University
256	601-610	Kingston University, London
257	601-610	Szeged University
258	611-620	Brno University of Technology
259	611-620	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
260	611-620	Minho University
261	621-630	Ramon Lol University
262	621-630	University of Ljubljana
263	621-630	University of the Basque Country
264	631-640	Palatski University Olomouc
265	631-640	University of Lille
266	641-650	Far Eastern Federal University
267	641-650	Free University of Bozen Bolzano
268	641-650	University of Bradford
269	641-650	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
270	651-660	Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
271	651-660	University of Hohenheim
272	661-670	Aberystwyth University
273	661-670	Ca' Foscari University of Venice
274	661-670	Karl Franzens University Graz
275	661-670	Middlesex University
276	661-670	Rovira Virgili University
277	661-670	University of Studies of Perugia
278	671-680	University of Debrecen
279	671-680	University of Greenwich
280	681-690	Paris Loudron University in Salzburg
281	681-690	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
282	681-690	National University of Science and Technology MISIS
283	691-700	University of Mons
284	691-700	University of Trieste
285	691-700	VN Karazin Kharkiv National University
286	701-710	Altai State University
287	701-710	Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
288	701-710	Eötvus Lorand University
289	701-710	University of Santiago de Compostela
290	711-720	University of Westminster
291	711-720	University of Rennes
292	721-730	Università Politecnica delle Marche
293	721-730	University of Belgrade
294	721-730	University of Côte d'Azur
295	721-730	University of Lorain
296	731-740	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
297	731-740	Bournemouth University
298	731-740	National Technical University of Ukraine
299	731-740	University of Siena
300	741-750	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
301	741-750	Sofia University
302	741-750	Barry University
303	741-750	University of the West of England
304	741-750	University of Regensburg
305	751-760	IUL Portugal
306	751-760	Liverpool John Morris University
307	751-760	Riga Technical University
308	751-760	Technical University Braunschweig
309	751-760	University of Zagreb
310	761-770	Philips University Marburg
311	761-770	University of Rostock
312	771-780	Comenius University Bratislava
313	771-780	Sechenov University
314	771-780	University of Brighton
315	771-780	University of Duisburg-Essen
316	771-780	University of Nantes
317	781-790	Keele University
318	791-800	Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
319	791-800	Brescia
320	791-800	University of Patras
321	801-850	Babis Bolyai University
322	801-850	Belarusian National Technical University
323	801-850	De Montfort University
324	801-850	Edinburgh Napier University
325	801-850	Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
326	801-850	Kaunas University of Technology
327	801-850	Maynooth University
328	801-850	Poznań University of Life Sciences
329	801-850	University of Düsseldorf
330	801-850	University of Alicante
331	801-850	University of Latvia
332	801-850	University of Pécs
333	801-850	University of Salerno
334	801-850	University of Verona
335	801-850	Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
336	801-850	Vytautas Magnus University
337	851-900	CY Sergy University Paris
338	851-900	University of Catania
339	851-900	Gdańsk University of Technology
340	851-900	London South Bank University
341	851-900	Saratov National Research University
342	851-900	Pavol Jozef Šavarik University in Košice
343	851-900	Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
344	851-900	Southern Federal University
345	851-900	TU Dortmund University
346	851-900	University of Technology Dublin
347	851-900	Università degli Studi di Ferrara
348	851-900	University of Paris Panthéon Assas
349	851-900	University of Bucharest
350	851-900	University of East London
351	851-900	University of Hertfordshire
352	851-900	Lincoln University
353	851-900	University of Malta
354	851-900	University of Maribor
355	851-900	University of Messina
356	851-900	University of Palermo
357	851-900	University of Parma
358	851-900	University of Salford
359	901-950	AGH University in Krakow
360	901-950	Athens University of Economics and Business
361	901-950	London Metropolitan University
362	901-950	Mendel University in Brno
363	901-950	National Technical University Poland
364	901-950	Nicolaus Copernicus University
365	901-950	Riga Stradins University
366	901-950	Robert Gordon University
367	901-950	Samara National Research University
368	901-950	Portuguese Catholic University
369	901-950	University of Vigo
370	901-950	University of Central Lancashire
371	901-950	University of Murcia
372	901-950	University of Wroclaw
373	901-950	University of Romani Studies Tri
374	901-950	Wrocław University of Science and Technology
375	951-1000	Bielefeld University
376	951-1000	Lviv National Polytechnic University
377	951-1000	Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University
378	951-1000	South Ural State University

The best universities in Germany

Technical University of Munich
Heidelberg University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Bonn
Humboldt University of Berlin

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The best universities in Sweden

Lund University
Karolinska Institutet
Uppsala University
Chalmers Tekniska Hojeskola
Linköpings University

The best universities in Norway

University of Oslo
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Bergen
University of Tromsø
University of Stavanger

The best universities in the Netherlands

University of Amsterdam
Leiden University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Radboud University

The best universities in Belgium

Catholic University of Louvain
University of Liège
Free University of Brussels
Free University of Brussels
Catholic University of Leuven

The best universities in France

Polytechnic School
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Normal high school
University of Paris Sud
Central School of Lyon

The best universities in Switzerland

Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
University of Zurich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
University of Bern)
University of Basel

The best universities in Austria

University of Vienna
Technical University of Vienna
University of Innsbruck
University of Graz
Technical University

The best universities in the Czech Republic

Charles University in Prague
Czech Technical University in Prague
Masaryk University
Brno University of Technology
Palacký University Olomouc

The best universities in Poland

University of Warsaw (University of Warsaw)
Jagiellonian University (Jagiellonian University)
Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw University of Technology)
University of Wroclaw (University of Wrocław)
AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH University of Science and Technology)

The best universities in Hungary

Eötvös Loránd University
University of Pécs
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Szeged University
University of Debrecen

The best universities in Spain

University of Salamanca
Complutense University of Madrid
University of Barcelona
University of Granada
Universidad de Valencia

Note: This list is based on University classification

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