Regional profile · 2026

Europe

417 universities across 35 countries, led by University of Oxford. Europe's collaboration leaders, on the evidence.

417

Ranked universities

Countries

$32.6B

Research funding analysed

405,536

Partnerships mapped

Widest partner-country reach

#	University	Partners	Countries	Funding
#3	University of Oxford	1185	80	$742M
#5	University College London	1187	80	$581M
#6	University of Cambridge	1186	80	$690M
#9	University of Edinburgh	1181	81	$358M
#12	King's College London	1161	81	$249M
#13	Imperial College London	1179	80	$446M
#22	KU Leuven	1172	80	$802M
#23	University of Zurich	1124	81	$221M
#24	University of Manchester	1178	80	$275M
#25	Queen Mary University of London	1161	80	$105M
#28	University of Amsterdam	1144	80	$419M
#30	University of Copenhagen	1159	80	$749M
#32	University of Birmingham	1174	80	$207M
#34	University of Glasgow	1167	80	$180M
#36	University of Southampton	1174	81	$167M
#37	Karolinska Institutet	1132	81	$379M
#38	University of Liverpool	1161	81	$105M
#39	University of Groningen	1160	80	$288M
#43	University of Bristol	1154	80	$232M
#45	University of Exeter	1146	80	$163M
#47	University of Helsinki	1160	80	$397M
#48	ETH Zurich	1135	79
#49	University of Nottingham	1182	80	$129M
#50	Lund University	1153	81	$421M
#51	Université Paris Cité	1169	80	$77M