Rankings of universities in the European Union have been published by Quacquarelli Symonds and the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (ARWU).
Rankings of Universities have been published by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2024.[1] (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.[2]
Rankings of Universities have been published by QS World University Rankings.[3] (apply filter by location "Europe" without universities in countries outside the European Union)
| Top 20 (2025) | Top 20 (2024) | University | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Paris Sciences et Lettres University |  France
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| 2 | 2 | Technical University of Munich |  Germany
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| 3 | 7 | Polytechnic Institute of Paris | France
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| 4 | 3 | Delft University of Technology |  Netherlands
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| 5 | 5 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands
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| 6 | 4 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | Germany
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| 7 | 8 | KU Leuven |  Belgium
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| 8 | 12 | Sorbonne University | France
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| 9 | 13 | Paris Saclay University | France
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| 10 | 11 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |  Sweden
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| 11 | 9 | Lund University | Sweden
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| 12 | 6 | Heidelberg University | Germany
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| 13 | 14 | Trinity College Dublin |  Ireland
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| 14 | 17 | Free University of Berlin | Germany
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| 15 | 31 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany
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| 16 | 15 | University of Copenhagen |  Denmark
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| 17 | 34 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany
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| 18 | 10 | Uppsala University | Sweden
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| 19 | 19 | Utrecht University | Netherlands
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| 20 | 39 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark
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Ranking of universities in the United Kingdom
