Leiden University climbs Shanghai Ranking

Leiden University has climbed five places in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’. Leiden is now ranked 65th in the world.

Most important criteria

The Shanghai researchers look at more than 1000 universities each year, and include the best 500 in the ranking. Among the most important criteria are the number of times that employees of a university published in academic journals such as Nature and Science and the number of awards such as Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (a sort of Nobel Prize for mathematics) that employees and graduates of a university received.

Top of the ranking

Three American universities are at the top of the ranking: Harvard, Stanford and MIT. The first European university is in fifth place: Cambridge in Great Britain. There are three European universities in the top 20, and 34 in the top 100. The universities of Leiden and Utrecht are the only two Dutch universities in the top 100. The first Dutch university is Utrecht University, which is in 48th place.

European ranking

In the list of the 34 European universities that are in the global top 100, British universities occupy the first five places followed by two Parisian universities. Utrecht University is in the 11th and Leiden University in the 17th place.

Link

See also the website of the Academic Ranking of World Universities