Best University Rankings in Europe 2026

Rank	University	Percentage Ranking (Continent)	Country	Type
1	University of Oxford	1 %	United Kingdom	Private
2	University of Cambridge	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
3	University College London	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
4	KU Leuven	1 %	Belgium	Public
5	University of Edinburgh	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
6	Imperial College London	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
7	ETH Zürich	1 %	Switzerland	Public
8	King’s College London	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
9	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1 %	Germany	Public
10	University of Manchester	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
11	London School of Economics and Political Science	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
12	University of Amsterdam	1 %	Netherlands	Public
13	Technical University of Munich	1 %	Germany	Public
14	University of Southampton	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
15	University of Birmingham	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
16	University of Leeds	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
17	University of Glasgow	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
18	Utrecht University	1 %	Netherlands	Public
19	University of Copenhagen	1 %	Denmark	Public
20	University of Warwick	1 %	United Kingdom	Public
21	Lund University	1 %	Sweden	Public
22	Delft University of Technology	1 %	Netherlands	Public
23	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	1 %	Switzerland	Public
24	University of Helsinki	1 %	Finland	Public
25	Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg	1 %	Germany	Public