Utrecht University at number 6 in the top 100 in EU

Utrecht University is proud of its reputation as one of Europe’s leading research universities. In 2006 we received excellent ratings in various international rankings of universities. The ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006’ report, compiled by researchers of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education, ranks the world’s top 500 universities on academic and research performance. It placed Utrecht University at number 40 within the top 500 of the world’s best universities, at number 6 within the top 100 of Europe’s best universities and at number 1 of the 14 Dutch universities. All universities were carefully evaluated using several indicators of research performance, including the number of highly cited researchers, academic performance, the prevalence of articles published in the scientific journals Science and Nature, and the number of Nobel Prize winners. Source: Shanghai Jiao Tong University