ETH maintains leading position in continental Europe

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ranks 12th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027. Although it has dropped one place from last year, it remains the highest-ranked university in continental Europe. 

The top six positions are occupied by the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and Stanford University (all in the U.S.), Cambridge (United Kingdom), and Harvard University (U.S.). They are followed by the California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University. In 11th place is China’s Tsinghua University, having risen and overtaken the ETH. In total, nearly 2,300 universities from 118 countries were analyzed.

ETH scored 93.6 points in the overall ranking. According to a statement from the university, its highest score (98.3) was in the research environment category, where it ranks seventh worldwide. Its scores in the other categories were 89.3 for teaching, 94.4 for research quality, 85 for industry, which takes factors such as patents into account, and 94.2 for international outlook.

With the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (36th), the University of Basel (111th), the University of Bern (121st), the University of Lausanne (129th), and the University of Geneva (163rd), five additional Swiss universities are ranked in the current top 200.