Best Universities for Data Science in Europe

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in Europe ranked based on their research performance in Data Science. A graph of 8.92M citations received by 333K academic papers made by 727 universities in Europe was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. University College London

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2. University of Oxford

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3. Imperial College London

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4. University of Bristol

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5. University of Manchester

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6. University of Cambridge

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7. University of Edinburgh

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8. University of Southampton

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9. University of Birmingham

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10. King's College London

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11. St George's, University of London

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12. University of Sheffield

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13. Catholic University of Leuven

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14. University of York

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15. University of Amsterdam

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16. University of Glasgow

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17. University of Liverpool

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18. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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19. University of London

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20. Newcastle University

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21. Leiden University

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22. Delft University of Technology

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23. University of Nottingham

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24. University of Leeds

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25. Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

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26. University of Zurich

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27. Eindhoven University of Technology

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28. University of Warwick

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29. University of Leicester

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30. Polytechnic University of Milan

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31. Cardiff University

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32. Technical University of Munich

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33. University of Granada

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34. Utrecht University

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35. Uppsala University

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36. Radboud University

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37. Queen Mary University of London

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38. University of Exeter

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39. Technical University of Madrid

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40. University of Bologna

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41. Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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42. Vienna University of Technology

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43. University of Copenhagen

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44. Heidelberg University - Germany

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45. Free University Amsterdam

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46. Ghent University

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47. University of Aberdeen

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48. Technical University of Catalonia

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49. University of Helsinki

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50. University of Geneva

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51. University of Pisa

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52. RWTH Aachen University

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53. University College Dublin

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54. Sapienza University of Rome

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55. Maastricht University

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56. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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57. Lancaster University

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58. Federico II University of Naples

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59. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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60. Polytechnic University of Valencia

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61. University of Twente

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62. Erasmus University Rotterdam

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63. Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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64. University of Bern

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65. University of Stuttgart

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66. London School of Economics and Political Science

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67. University of Groningen

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68. Polytechnic University of Bari

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69. Aalto University

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70. University of Porto

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71. Technical University of Berlin

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72. Ulster University

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73. University of Wales

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74. University of Patras

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75. University of Oslo

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76. Pierre and Marie Curie University

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77. University of Dundee

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78. Swansea University

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79. Keele University

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80. Aarhus University

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81. National Technical University of Athens

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82. Durham University

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83. Lund University

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84. University of Munich

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85. City, University of London

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86. Queen's University Belfast

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87. Aalborg University

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88. University of Surrey

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89. University of Sussex

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90. University of Vienna

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91. University of Milan

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92. University of Reading

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93. Dresden University of Technology

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94. Brunel University London

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95. Wageningen University

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96. University of East Anglia

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97. Technical University of Denmark

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98. University of Leipzig

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99. Karolinska Institute

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100. University of Padua

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