UvA maintains ranking of 83rd in THE World University Rankings
UvA’s Social Sciences best in the Netherlands
The UvA has maintained last year’s ranking of 83rd place in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014. Within the sub-rankings for each discipline, the UvA’s Social Sciences department is ranked 34th, making it the best in the Netherlands. The rankings were published on the evening of Wednesday, 3 October.
Across the total of six sub-rankings, the UvA also ranked in the top 100 in Arts & Humanities and in Clinical, Pre-Clinical & Health, at 41st and 64th respectively.
Twelve Dutch universities made it into the overall top 200, with eight in the top 100. The rankings are traditionally dominated by American and British universities. The California Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the University of Oxford are the top three, respectively. The highest ranked Dutch university is the Leiden University (at 67th).
Method
The Times Higher Education ranking is drawn up using 13 different performance indicators. These include teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international orientation.