Times: Netherlands are continental Europe’s primary power in higher education

Vice-chancellors all over the world open this week’s issue of the Times Higher Education Supplement with trepidation, for it contains its yearly ranking of the world’s top 200 universities. In Holland there is reason for satisfaction. “A total of 28 nations have at least one institution in the 200. Virtually every university in Australia is in the rankings, with 12 representatives, while the Netherlands, with 11, emerges as continental Europe's principal power in higher education”, the paper says. Here are the Dutch universities in the top 200: 48 University of Amsterdam 63 Delft University of Technology 90 Leiden University 95 Utrecht University 111 Maastricht University 130 Eindhoven University of Technology 148 Wageningen University 132 University of Groningen 185 University of Twente 195 Radboud University Nijmegen As usual the top 200 is headed by Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale.// www.Nuffic.nl