Mobilising Europe’s R&D talent pool If talent represents the foundations of the European tech ecosystem, its academic institutions are the bedrock. Europe is home to 14 of the Top 50 computer science universities in the world, including 5 of the Top 10. Europe is, If talent represents the foundations of the European Europe’s universities among global top 50 in in short, a factory for producing world-class computer science talent. tech ecosystem, its academic institutions are computer science and their global rank the bedrock. Europe is home to 14 of the Top 50 University Country Europe's universities among global top 50 in 3 University of Oxford United Kingdom computer science and their global rank computer science universities in the world, including 5 of the Top 10. Europe is, in short, a factory for 4 ETH Zurich Switzerland producing world-class computer science talent. 5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 9 Imperial College London United Kingdom 10 EPF Switzerland 14 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 16 Technical University of Munich Germany 18 UCL United Kingdom 36 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 37 RWTH Aachen University Germany =42 Delft University of Technology Netherlands =42 Technical University of Berlin Germany 47 LMU Munich Germany 50 KU Leuven Belgium Note: 4 of the world's top 10 and 31 of the world's top 100 Compiled by the Times Higher Education Supplement and Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings gathered by CERN. 2018 universities in engineering and technology are located in Looking beyond just computer science, Europe Europe’s universities among global top 100 in Europe engineering and technology and their global rank is home to 31 of the world’s top 100 universities in engineering and technology. These 31 universities University Country Europe's universities among global top 100 in 3 University of Oxford United Kingdom engineering and technology and their global are distributed across 11 different countries and 29 5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom rank different cities and reflect the fact that European 9 ETH Zurich Switzerland STEM talent is inherently spread across the region 10 Imperial College London United Kingdom driven by the strong academic institutions that 14 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland exist in all corners of the region. There are, in short, 18 Delft University of Technology Netherlands clusters of world-class talent potential in every 21 Technical University of Munich Germany corner of Europe. 24 RWTH Aachen University Germany 36 UCL United Kingdom 37 KU Leuven Belgium 38 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 43 Technical University of Berlin Germany 45 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 46 University of Manchester United Kingdom 51 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 55 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 58 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 75 University of Bristol United Kingdom 77 University of Stuttgart Germany 79 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 82 École Polytechnique France 84 University of She eld United Kingdom 85 Aalborg University Denmark 86 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norway 87 University of Southampton United Kingdom 88 University of Freiburg Germany 90 Polytechnic University of Milan Italy 94 TU Dresden Germany 95 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany 96 Lund University Sweden 99 Aalto University Finland Note: Times Higher Education 'Rank' refers to position in global list of top 100 institutions for Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings World University Rankings 2018 engineering and technology quali cations. Compiled by the 2018 Times Higher Education Supplement and gathered by CERN. & 83 In Partnership with www.thestateofeuropeantech.com