Best Universities for Liberal Arts & Social Sciences in Europe
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Below is a list of best universities in Europe ranked based on their research performance in Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. A graph of 343M citations received by 14.5M academic papers made by 1,500 universities in Europe was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.
1. University of Oxford
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1096
2. University College London
- Enrollment
- 42,000
- Founded
- 1826
3. University of Cambridge
- Acceptance Rate
- 21%
- Founded
- 1209
4. University of Edinburgh
- Acceptance Rate
- 51%
- Founded
- 1583
7. University of Amsterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 51%
- Enrollment
- 41,000
- Founded
- 1632
11. Imperial College London
- Enrollment
- 17,565
- Founded
- 1907
13. University of Bristol
- Acceptance Rate
- 63%
- Enrollment
- 27,513
- Founded
- 1909
14. London School of Economics and Political Science
- Acceptance Rate
- 8%
- Enrollment
- 9,218
- Founded
- 1895
16. Utrecht University
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1636
21. University of Zurich
- Acceptance Rate
- 19%
- Enrollment
- 25,732
29. University of Warwick
- Enrollment
- 27,278
- Founded
- 1965
33. University of London
- Enrollment
- 50,000
- Founded
- 1836
34. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Acceptance Rate
- 8%
- Enrollment
- 23,420
35. University of Groningen
- Acceptance Rate
- 50%
- Enrollment
- 34,000
- Founded
- 1614
36. University of Southampton
- Enrollment
- 21,335
- Founded
- 1952
38. University of York
- Acceptance Rate
- 20%
- Founded
- 1963
42. University of Liverpool
- Enrollment
- 28,693
- Founded
- 1881
44. Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 53%
- Founded
- 1913
46. Leiden University
- Acceptance Rate
- 30%
- Enrollment
- 27,713
- Founded
- 1575
48. Free University Amsterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 45%
- Founded
- 1880
56. University of Sussex
- Enrollment
- 17,319
- Male:Female
- 44:56
- Founded
- 1961
61. Durham University
- Enrollment
- 19,520
- Founded
- 1832
63. Lancaster University
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1964
64. University of Exeter
- Acceptance Rate
- 73%
- Founded
- 1955
66. Delft University of Technology
- Acceptance Rate
- 50%
- Enrollment
- 24,703
- Founded
- 1842
75. Wageningen University
- Enrollment
- 12,819
- Founded
- 1918
76. Queen Mary University of London
- Acceptance Rate
- 18%
- Founded
- 1989
77. University of Leicester
- Enrollment
- 24,409
- Male:Female
- 46:54
- Founded
- 1957
79. Maastricht University
- Enrollment
- 18,000
- Founded
- 1976
91. University of East Anglia
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1963
93. University of Lausanne
- Acceptance Rate
- 31%
- Enrollment
- 16,908
97. University of St Andrews
- Enrollment
- 10,425
- Founded
- 1413
