UT earned a high score in a worldwide raking of universities that was recently compiled by the Spanish research institute CSIC. The list ranks more than 4,000 universities and schools of professional education.

UT came in at number 148 and is therefore the fourth most highly ranked Dutch university after Utrecht, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Groningen. Delft and Eindhoven are the fifth and sixth best ranked Dutch universities. Leiden is the seventh.

The universities of Twente, Delft and Eindhoven belong to the top 10 % of the 500 universities on the list: UT comes in at number 42, Delft at 47 and Eindhoven at number 50.

The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" was compiled by the Cybermetrics Lab of the largest research institute in Spain, CSIC (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). The Webometrics ranking places heavy emphasis on the web presence of individual institutes’ research and researchers.

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