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 239M citations received by 12.5M academic papers made by 1,492 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
6. University of Edinburgh
- Acceptance Rate
- 51%
- Founded
- 1583
7. University of Amsterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 51%
- Enrollment
- 41,000
- Founded
- 1632
10. Imperial College London
- Enrollment
- 17,565
- Founded
- 1907
12. University of Bristol
- Acceptance Rate
- 63%
- Enrollment
- 27,513
- Founded
- 1909
14. Utrecht University
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1636
16. London School of Economics and Political Science
- Acceptance Rate
- 8%
- Enrollment
- 9,218
- Founded
- 1895
25. University of Zurich
- Acceptance Rate
- 19%
- Enrollment
- 25,732
27. University of Warwick
- Enrollment
- 27,278
- Founded
- 1965
30. University of Groningen
- Acceptance Rate
- 50%
- Enrollment
- 34,000
- Founded
- 1614
31. University of Southampton
- Enrollment
- 21,335
- Founded
- 1952
33. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Acceptance Rate
- 8%
- Enrollment
- 23,420
37. University of Liverpool
- Enrollment
- 28,693
- Founded
- 1881
41. University of London
- Enrollment
- 50,000
- Founded
- 1836
44. Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 53%
- Founded
- 1913
48. Leiden University
- Acceptance Rate
- 30%
- Enrollment
- 27,713
- Founded
- 1575
50. University of York
- Acceptance Rate
- 20%
- Founded
- 1963
52. University of Sussex
- Enrollment
- 17,319
- Male:Female
- 44:56
- Founded
- 1961
53. Free University Amsterdam
- Acceptance Rate
- 45%
- Founded
- 1880
58. Durham University
- Enrollment
- 19,520
- Founded
- 1832
59. Delft University of Technology
- Acceptance Rate
- 50%
- Enrollment
- 24,703
- Founded
- 1842
61. Lancaster University
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1964
63. University of Exeter
- Acceptance Rate
- 73%
- Founded
- 1955
72. Queen Mary University of London
- Acceptance Rate
- 18%
- Founded
- 1989
73. University of Leicester
- Enrollment
- 24,409
- Male:Female
- 46:54
- Founded
- 1957
74. Wageningen University
- Enrollment
- 12,819
- Founded
- 1918
79. Maastricht University
- Enrollment
- 18,000
- Founded
- 1976
82. University of East Anglia
- Acceptance Rate
- 22%
- Founded
- 1963
95. University of Lausanne
- Acceptance Rate
- 31%
- Enrollment
- 16,919
97. Loughborough University
- Enrollment
- 19,449
- Founded
- 1966
99. University of St Andrews
- Enrollment
- 10,425
- Founded
- 1413
