Times Higher Education We are among the top 150 universities in the World University Ranking of Times Higher Education: this ranking places our university at spot 116. This global performance ranking judges research-intensive universities across their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

QS Ranking The QS Ranking (Quacquarelli Symonds) of 2022 places VU Amsterdam 209th in the world. We position ourself most strongly on the component citations per faculty (position 153 worldwide). Compared to last year, VU Amsterdam also posi- tions itself higher on the component education to international students .

Leiden Ranking The Leiden Ranking is based on publications in the Web of Science database produced by Clarivate Analytics. The Leiden Ranking uses the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Only publications of the Web of Science document types article and review are taken into account. VU Amsterdam holds the 147th position in this ranking. Shanghai Ranking In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 (ARWU, Shanghai Ranking), which focuses on research excellence, VU Amsterdam currently holds the 131st position worldwide.

The Netherlands has a binary system of Higher Education with 13 research universities, including VU Amsterdam, and 40 universities of applied sciences. The Dutch research universities are all of high academic quality, and consistently ranked among the first 250 universities in international rankings. Only the US and UK feature more research universities in the top 200. In no other system except for Switzerland, the proportion of all research universities in the top 250 is this high.

GLOBE-AFRICA Worldwide Cow The Netherlands

Scientific Impact Leiden Ranking 147 6 ARWU Shanghai Ranking 131 7 Times Higher Education (THE) 116 8 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) 209 10

International ranking and position

leaf 2nd in action against climate change VU Amsterdam ranks 2nd in the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020 when it comes to taking action against climate change. The ranking evaluates the contribution of 766 univer- sities worldwide to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on the total evaluation, we rank 39th.

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