Study in Europe

Top universities in Europe

One look at the QS World University Rankings®, and you’ll see the UK remains Europe’s leader at the top of the tables, with four UK universities in the top 10 and a total of 18 UK entries in the top 100. Of these, the University of Oxford leads in fourth place, while the University of Cambridge is unsurprisingly not far behind at seventh.

Switzerland also has two universities ranked within the global top 20, with ETH Zurich in sixth place and EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) joint 18^th. Other top European universities include France’s Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University (PSL) (ranked 53^rd in the world) and Ecole Polytechnique (=60^th), the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology (50^th), Denmark’s University of Copenhagen (=72^nd), Germany’s Technische Universität München (55^th) and many more…

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Out Now! QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024