Universitatile din Marea Britanie sunt considerate a fi cele mai bune din Europa. Primul loc este ocupat de Oxford University, dar in top 15 mai sunt si universitati din Elvetia, Suedia si Germania.

Times Higher Education a facut un top al celor mai bune universitati din Europa, analizandu-se modul de predare, veniturile inregistrate, activitatea de cercetare si referintele internationale primite.

1. Oxford University, Marea Britanie

Locul 4 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi anual: 21.000
Taxa anuala: 5.400 dolari
Alumni celebri: David Cameron, Oscar Wilde, Hugh Grant

2. Cambridge University, Marea Britanie

Locul 6 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi anual: 18.300
Taxa anuala: 5.400 dolari
Alumni celebri: Stephen Fry, Sacha Baron Cohen, John Cleese

3. Imperial College London, Marea Britanie

Numarul 8 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi anual: 13.000
Taxa anuala: 5.265 dolari
Alumni celebri: Rajiv Gandhi, Brian May, Sir Roger Bannister

4. ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Elvetia

Locul 15 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 15.000
Taxa anuala: 1.320 dolari
Alumni celebri: Karl Alexander Mueller, Albert Einstein, Carlos Kleiber

5. University College London, Marea Britanie

Locul 17 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 21.600
Taxa anuala: 5.400 dolari
Alumni celebri: Ricky Gervais, Jomo Kenyatta, Christopher Nolan

6. Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Locul 32 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 8.000
Scolarizare anuala gratuita pentru cetatenii Uniunii Europene
Alumni celebri: Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Sune Bergström, Lars Leksell

7. University of Edinburgh, Marea Britanie

Locul 36 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 24.000
Taxa anuala: 2.900 dolari
Alumni celebri: Sir Walter Scott, David Hume

8. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germania

Locul 45 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 44.000
Taxa anuala: 1.500 dolari
Alumni celebri: Pope Benedict XVI, Manfred Worner, Theodor Heuss

9. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Elvetia

Locul 46 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 7.000
Taxa anuala: 1.440 dolari
Alumni celebri: Andre Gorz, Andre Kudelski, Franck Riboud

10. London School of Economic, Marea Britanie

Locul 47 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 9.000
Taxa anuala: 5.400 dolari
Alumni faimosi: Pete Rouse, Ed Miliband, George Soros

11. University of Manchester, Marea Britanie

Locul 48 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 39.000
Taxa anuala: 5.400 dolari
Alumni celebri: Anthony Burgess, Ernest Rutherford, Joseph E. Stiglitz

12 King's College London, Marea Britanie

Locul 56 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 23.000
Taxa anuala: 6.000 dolari
Alumni celebri: John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Michael Nyman

13. École Normale Supérieure, Franta

Locul 59 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 2.950
Taxa anuala: 4.170 dolari 
Alumni celebri: Emile Durkheim, George Pompidou, Jean Giraudoux

14 University of Zurich, Elvetia

Locul 61 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 24.000
Taxa anuala: 1.455 dolari
Alumni celebri: Albert Einstein, Alfred Werner, Theoder Mommsen

15. École Polytechnique, Franta
Locul 63 in lume
Numar de studenti inscrisi: 2.700
Scolarizare gratuita pentru studentii de origine franceza
Alumni celebri: Henri Becquerel, Andre Citroen, Michel Pebereau