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Forbes Lifestyle Arts Want To Study In Europe? The Best European Universities In 2024 By QS World Rankings Cecilia Rodriguez Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Following Sep 27, 2023, 09:56am EDT | Press play to listen to this article! Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin King's Chapel and King's college entrance gate at Cambridge university getty The QS World University Rankings organization has released its first list of top universities in Europe, evaluating 688 institutions across the continent — with Great Britain leading the pack. The United Kingdom, its Oxford University at the top, boasts the most universities on the list, with 107 featured and accounting for 15.5% of the total. It’s followed by Turkey with 73 at 10.6%, and Germany with 53 at 7.8%. France follows at 7.2%, Spain at 6.4% and Poland at 4.8%. MORE FROM FORBES Want To Study Abroad? The 2023 Best Universities In Europe According To Worldwide Rankings By Cecilia Rodriguez An evolving landscape For the first time, the list includes 106 European universities that have not previously been ranked by the global higher education analyst, signaling the evolving landscape of higher education as institutions from North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, and Albania, among others, are included. The rankings are based on 12 traditional criteria including global recognition, research prowess, teaching resources, internationalisation and employment outcomes. This survey added a new category of ‘international student diversity’ that assesses the proportion of international students and the number of nationalities represented. 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The University of Edinburgh is the only institution in the survey to receive a perfect score of 100 in the sustainability indicator. Main building of university for technology and natural sciences, ETH,Switzerland getty Excellence Indicators Switzerland has two institutions in the first 10 places: ETH Zurich-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology second on the list and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) at #9. One French public research university, the PSL-Paris Sciences et Lettres University made it to #7. The QS University rankings notes that “many universities outside of the leading top 10 are excelling in certain indicators. For example, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ranked 66 th ) with 100 in ‘Inbound exchange students’, University of Luxembourg (ranked 182 nd ) with 100 in ‘Outbound exchange students’ and Aalto University in Finland (ranked 40 th ) with 99.8 in ‘Employment outcomes’. Sorbonne Square with the Pantheon, Sorbonne University, in the background getty The next on the list Among other non-British new universities appearing in the first 25 places are: Technical University of Munich , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Universität Heidelberg in Germany, Delft University of Technology and University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Palaiseau Cedex and Sorbonne University in Paris, KU Leuven in Belgium, Lund University , Uppsala University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Of the over 42,613 respondents to a QS Survey, prospective international students said the U.K. was their top choice for the best study destination in Europe (22%). The next most-popular destinations were Sweden (8%), Italy (6%),and the Netherlands and Germany with 5% each. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland getty “The inaugural edition of the QS Europe Ranking offers a unique opportunity for universities in one of the world’s most competitive higher education landscapes to benchmark themselves against their international peers, and for its policymakers to assess individual institutional performance across the broadest range of data sets in any of our rankings," said Ben Sowter, QS senior vice president. Top ten These are the top 10 universities with their programs fees and ratings: 1) University of Oxford 2) ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 3) University of Cambridge , U.K. 4) Imperial College London 5) UCL , London 6) University of Edinburgh 7) Université PSL , Paris, France 8) University of Manchester , UK 9) EPFL , Lausanne, Switzerland 10) King's College London See the complete list of the universities featured in the survey here . Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn . 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