Delft overtakes Amsterdam in new Times university rankings
Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University have overtaken Amsterdam as the best Dutch universities in the latest Times Higher Education ranking.
The UvA has fallen three places to 62 while Delft has risen from 63 to 58 in the latest THE list. Wageningen is one place behind Delft in joint 59th place.
The universities are ranked according to their teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook and the list is headed by Oxford and Cambridge in Britain, followed by Stanford in the US.
Leiden (68), Erasmus (70), Utrecht (75) and Groningen (79) complete the list of seven Dutch universities in the top 100.
Tilburg is the only Dutch university outside the top 200.
Other rankings give a different picture of the standard of university education in the Netherlands. The most recent Shanghai rankings put Utrecht at the top of the Dutch list while the QS World University Rankings put Amsterdam on top.
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