The 10 best universities in Europe Based on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 1. University of Oxford, UK 2. University of Cambridge, UK 3. Imperial College London, UK 4. ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 5. University College London, UK 6. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 7. University of Edinburgh, UK 8. King's College London, UK 9. Karolinska Institute, Sweden 10. LMU Munich, Germany Source: Times Higher Education EFTA01183514