Ranking The 37 Best Universities In Europe For 2018

Thirty-seven European institutions made US News ranking of the world’s 100 best global universities for 2018. The U.S. leads the global rankings with 48 universities among top 100, including 8 of the top ten.

UK came in second with ten institutions in the top 100 — behind the UK and the U.S., the following countries have the most ranked institutions out of the top 100 global universities:

US: 48
UK: 10
Netherlands, Australia: 7
Switzerland, Germany: 4
Sweden, France, Canada: 3
Singapore, Denmark, China, Belgium: 2
Spain, Japan, Finland: 1 university each

The University of Oxford was the highest ranked institutions in Europe, followed by Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University College London.

These are the top 37 Universities in Europe:

1. University of Oxford, UK
Global rank: #5

2. University of Cambridge, UK
Global rank: #7

3. Imperial College London, UK
Global rank: #17

4. University College London, UK
Global rank: #22

5. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Global rank: #25

6. University of Edinburgh, UK
Global rank: #30

7. École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne, Switzerland
Global rank: #36

8. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Global rank: #37

9. Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
Global rank: #38

10. University of Munich, Germany
Global rank: #40

11. King’s College London, UK
Global rank: #41

12. Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Global rank: #52

13. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Global rank: #55

14. Utrecht University, Netherlands
Global rank: #57

15. Heidelberg University, Germany
Global rank: #59

16. University of Manchester, UK
Global rank: #59 (tie)

17. University of Zurich, Switzerland
Global rank: #59 (tie)

18. Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Global rank: #63

19. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Global rank: #73 (tie)

20. University of Bristol, UK
Global rank: #73 (tie)

21. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Global rank: #75

22. Leiden University, Netherlands
Global rank: #79

23. Technical University of Munich, Germany
Global rank: #80

24. University of Barcelona, Spain
Global rank: #81 (tie)

25. University of Helsinki, Finland
Global rank: #81 (tie)

26. Lund University, Sweden
Global rank: #85 (tie)

27. VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Global rank: #85 (tie)

28. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Global rank: #87

29. Ghent University, Belgium
Global rank: #88 (tie)

30. University of Geneva, Switzerland
Global rank: #88 (tie)

31. Wageningen University and Research Center, Netherlands
Global rank: #88

32. Université Paris-Sud, France
Global rank: #93

33. University of Groningen, Netherlands
Global rank: #94

34. Aarhus University, Denmark
Global rank: #95

35. University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Global rank: #97

36. Uppsala University, Sweden
Global rank: #99

37. University Paris Diderot – Paris 7, France
Global rank: #100