Rankings of universities in the European Union

Rankings of universities in the European Union have been published by Quacquarelli Symonds and the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (ARWU).

ARWU Ranking Rankings of Universities have been published by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2024. (without universities in countries outside the European Union)

American universities largely dominate the Shanghai Ranking, with almost half of the top 100 universities. The European Union comes second, with 19 universities in the top 100 of the Academic World University Rankings 2022 and 21 ranked universities, followed by the United Kingdom, said the European Commission, which has published a note on this classification in November 2021. Canada, Australia, China and Switzerland are also well represented in the top 100. Top 20 (2023)UniversityCountry1Paris Saclay University2University of Copenhagen3Karolinska Institute4Paris Sciences et Lettres University5Sorbonne University6Utrecht University7Heidelberg University8Technical University of Munich9LMU Munich10University of Bonn11Paris Cité University12University of Groningen13Aarhus University14Uppsala University15Ghent University16KU Leuven17Erasmus University Rotterdam18Stockholm University19Leiden University20Radboud University Nijmegen

QS Ranking Rankings of Universities have been published by QS World University Rankings. (apply filter by location "Europe" without universities in countries outside the European Union) +Top 20 (2025)Top 20 (2024)UniversityCountry11Paris Sciences et Lettres University22Technical University of Munich37Polytechnic Institute of Paris43Delft University of Technology55University of Amsterdam64LMU Munich78KU Leuven812Sorbonne University913Paris Saclay University1011KTH Royal Institute of Technology119Lund University126Heidelberg University1314Trinity College Dublin1417Free University of Berlin1531RWTH Aachen University1615University of Copenhagen1734Karlsruhe Institute of Technology1810Uppsala University1919Utrecht University2039Technical University of Denmark

See also Ranking of universities in the United Kingdom

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