Top 10 universities in Europe 2025
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As the American writer Shelby Foote once said: “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Though so much information for most people’s studies is now online, you can’t beat the feeling of sanctuary and calm you get from a good library. Whether you use them for research, reading or just to escape the world for a few hours, libraries are an essential part of the university experience.
This is the 2016 ranking. Access the most recent table here
The top 100 universities with the best student-to-staff ratios are predominantly US colleges, closely followed by Japanese institutions.
Not a single UK university appears in the list, which includes institutions across 23 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.