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World University Rankings 2026: Netherlands

13 universities ranked in the Netherlands, out of 2,280 worldwide. No official admissions or graduate-earnings data is used for the Netherlands yet, so the within-country part (35%) is estimated from each university’s standing among the Netherlands’s universities on the global measures.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons. Leiden University: FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0; Utrecht University: NielsB (uploader) · CC BY-SA 2.5; University of Amsterdam: Txllxt TxllxT · CC BY-SA 4.0; Radboud University: Roger Veringmeier · CC BY 3.0; Erasmus University Rotterdam: RSM erasmus · CC BY-SA 2.0.

National rankRank	University	World rank	Overall score	Research	Alumni outcomes	Admissions & earnings (in country)	World rank range
1	Leiden University	=53	63.5	98	96	est.	32–143
2	Utrecht University	92	55.0	99	92	est.	54–256
3	University of Amsterdam	109	51.6	98	90	est.	65–336
4	Radboud University	=133	48.4	97	88	est.	76–363
=5	Erasmus University Rotterdam	=155	46.8	97	84	est.	87–430
=5	University of Groningen	=155	46.8	97	83	est.	84–437
7	Delft University of Technology	=167	45.6	96	83	est.	93–451
8	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	=227	42.1	96	75	est.	113–617
9	Wageningen University & Research	=258	40.8	96	71	est.	128–669
10	Maastricht University	=333	38.2	94	70	est.	155–802
11	Eindhoven University of Technology	=452	34.4	91	64	est.	217–991
12	University of Twente	=683	28.3	85	21	est.	331–1358
13	Tilburg University	758	26.3	80	64	est.	348–1455

13 universities

Business schools in the Netherlands

Business Schools 2026

1. 87Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus UniversityErasmus University Rotterdam

1 school; rank among 107 full-time MBA programmes worldwide.

Research Index for the Netherlands · All of Europe · All countries

National rank follows the world ranking: universities are listed in world-rank order and keep a shared rank where their world rank is shared. Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among all 2,280 ranked universities; Admissions & earnings is the position within the university’s own country (est. where no official data exists). How the ranking works.