Belgium’s KU Leuven is the most innovative university in Europe for 2018, according to Reuters innovation ranking, which ranks higher education institutions doing the most to advance science and support new markets and industries. Imperial College London came in at No. 2, and the University of Cambridge ranked No. 3.
The Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) moved up one place to No. 4, as did the University of Erlangen Nuremberg (No. 5), and the Technical University of Munich dropped two spaces to number 6.
While, the University of Manchester moving up nine spots to No. 7, the University of Munich rising four spots to No. 8, the Technical University of Denmark moving up five to No. 9, and Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) sliding into the No. 10 spot.
In more conventional ranking, such as CEOWORLD magazine’s best universities in the world for 2018, KU Leuven was ranked 59th. it evaluates the learning environment, volume, and quality of research, internationalization, among other characteristics.
Take a look at the list of top 100 most innovative universities in Europe for 2018:
| Rank | University | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 2 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 4 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 5 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| 6 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 7 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 8 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 9 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 10 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 11 | UCL | United Kingdom |
| 12 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 13 | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
| 14 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 15 | University of Basel | Switzerland |
| 16 | Montpellier University | France |
| 17 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| 18 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France |
| 19 | Paris Descartes University | France |
| 20 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 21 | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | Germany |
| 22 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
| 23 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 24 | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 25 | Paris-Sud University | France |
| 26 | Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Germany |
| 27 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 28 | Grenoble Alpes University | France |
| 29 | TU Dresden | Germany |
| 30 | University of Bordeaux | France |
| 31 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 32 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 33 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 34 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 35 | Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 | France |
| 36 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 37 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 38 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
| 39 | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 40 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 41 | University of Strasbourg | France |
| 42 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| 43 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 44 | Polytechnic University of Milan | Italy |
| 45 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 46 | Grenoble Institute of Technology | France |
| 47 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Belgium |
| 48 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 49 | École Polytechnique | France |
| 50 | Goethe University Frankfurt | Germany |
| 51 | Paris Diderot University - Paris 7 | France |
| 52 | University of Munster - School of Business and Economics | Germany |
| 53 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 54 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium |
| 55 | Hannover Medical School | Germany |
| 56 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 57 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 58 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
| 59 | Aix-Marseille University | France |
| 60 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| 61 | Saarland University | Germany |
| 62 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 63 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| 64 | Vienna University of Technology | Austria |
| 65 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| 66 | University of Milan | Italy |
| 67 | Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées | France |
| 68 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 69 | University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 70 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 71 | University of Stuttgart | Germany |
| 72 | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 73 | University of Lorraine | France |
| 74 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 75 | University of Twente | Netherlands |
| 76 | University of Lille 1 | France |
| 77 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 78 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 79 | University of Nantes | France |
| 80 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 81 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy |
| 82 | University of Rennes 1 | France |
| 83 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 84 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 85 | University of Surrey | United Kingdom |
| 86 | University of Liège | Belgium |
| 87 | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain |
| 88 | Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena | Germany |
| 89 | University College Cork | Ireland |
| 90 | Jagiellonian University | Poland |
| 91 | Aalto University | Finland |
| 92 | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 93 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 94 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| 95 | Technical University of Darmstadt | Germany |
| 96 | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
| 97 | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis | France |
| 98 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 99 | Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain |
| 100 | University of Valencia | Spain |
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