30 Best universities for Liberal Arts & Social Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Below is a list of best universities in North Rhine-Westphalia ranked based on their research performance in Liberal Arts & Social Sciences. A graph of 5.22M citations received by 339K academic papers made by 30 universities in North Rhine-Westphalia was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
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Closest to North Rhine-Westphalia states to learn Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
| State | Universities Unis | Best university country rank Best uni  rank |
|---|---|---|
| Hesse | 12 | 6 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 13 | 17 |
| Lower Saxony | 14 | 12 |
| Bremen | 3 | 24 |
| Thuringia | 5 | 35 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 5 | 41 |
| Hamburg | 9 | 3 |
| Baden-Wurttemberg | 27 | 1 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 5 | 29 |
| Brandenburg | 18 | 5 |
| Saxony | 7 | 18 |
| Bavaria | 23 | 2 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 3 | 54 |