We are pleased to announce that calendar year 2023, saw the launch of the first edition of the QS World University Rankings: Europe. This ranking allows a deeper look into European institutions, using a methodology familiar to our other regional rankings.
The QS World University Rankings: Europe 2025 will be launched on 10 July 2024.
The regional remit for this ranking is those countries which are members of the Council of Europe.
The inclusion criteria is the same for our general rankings suite.
With our EECA ranking now discontinued, this ranking incorporates the majority of those countries that featured in EECA, as well as including countries from Northern, Southern and Western Europe that were previously only eligible for publication in our QS World University Ranking.
| Academic Reputation | 30% |
| Employer Reputation | 15% |
| Citations per Paper | 10% |
| Papers per Faculty | 5% |
| International Research Network | 10% |
| Employment Outcomes | 5% |
| Faculty Student Ratio | 5% |
| International Student Diversity | 5% |
| International Faculty Ratio | 5% |
| Inbound Exchange Student Ratio | 2.5% |
| Outbound Exchange Student Ratio | 2.5% |
| Sustainability Score | 5% |
To be eligible for this ranking, institutions must fulfil our Eligibility Criteria. If an institution is eligible then they must meet the following Inclusion Criteria to be ranked.
Inclusion Criteria:
These criteria is for any new entrants to the regional rankings.
| 1 | Research threshold |
100 or more papers must be documented in our Scopus extract over our 5 year window. See Papers for more details. |
| 2 | Reputation threshold |
An institution should be nominated in QS Academic Reputation Survey. |
Exclusion Criteria:
| 1 | Small Size |
If an institution is of small size (fewer than 5,000 students), then we look at the performance in Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation and Papers per Faculty. More specifically, we need at least one of the following scenarios to be met for inclusion in the last few editions:
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Sub-regional rankings
Along with the global QS Europe University Rankings, we publish 5 sub-regional derivative rankings as well:
- QS Europe University Rankings: Northern Europe
- QS Europe University Rankings: Southern Europe
- QS Europe University Rankings: Eastern Europe
- QS Europe University Rankings: Western Europe
- QS Europe University Rankings: Western Asia
An overall rank in the global ranking is transformed into an overall rank in the corresponding sub-regional ranking, using same overall and indicator scores as the global ranking. Indicator ranks in the sub-regional rankings are not available.
