UU best Dutch university according to Shanghai Ranking

To come up with its list, the Shanghai Ranking counts the number of Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medals and the number of papers published by the journals Nature and Science. It also awards points to the most cited scientists in the world (almost two hundred scientists in the Netherlands as a whole).

Utrecht
Utrecht University is the highest-scoring Dutch institution, at position 55. Groningen comes second, with 69th place, followed by Erasmus University Rotterdam, which has dropped out of the top 100.

UU been at the top of the ranking for several years, which is a little bit ironic because the university has been trying to distance itself from rankings in general. UU no longer provides data to list makers and calls on students and staff not to pay too much attention to it. The Shanghai Ranking uses open data, though.

As always, the Shanghai Ranking is led by American and British universities. Harvard, Stanford and MIT head the list, followed by the universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford.

Short-sighted
In recent years, there's been a growing consensus in Dutch academia that rankings like these are short-sighted. Inspiring professors should also be recognised and appreciated, argue those with this point of view. In the Leiden Ranking, for example, you can select the most important criteria yourself.

Dutch universities in the Shanghai Ranking