In Europe, the best universities for economic studies are found in the United Kingdom, even if there is also room for an Italian university in the upper levels of the ranking. To say it is the Ranking of the best universities for economic studies compiled by Qs, in a moment of particular boom for this kind of discipline.
Universities are ranked based on the institution's reputation with academics and employers, and the number of research citations the school receives for each paper published in that particular discipline. The various universities are then assigned a score on a 1-100 basis.
On the European scene, English universities dominate. In the first four places of the ranking, in fact, we find, in order, the London School of Economic and Political Science (seventh in the world with a score of 90.2), which boasts 12 Nobel Prize winners in Economics among its alumni; the University of Oxford (octave), which represents an absolute university excellence also in other fields; the University of Cambridge (tenth), frequented, throughout its history, by personalities such as Stiglitz, Friedman and John Maynard Keynes; and the University College London (16th)
Just outside this all-UK branded Top Four comes the first, and only, Italian representative in the standings, i.e. the Commercial University Louis Bocconi of Milan, fifth in Europe and seventeenth in the world with a score of 81.8. The university was frequented, among others, by former premier Mario Monti who is currently also its president.
Following the Spanish Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the English University of Warwick and London Business School, the Swedish Stockholm School of Economics, the Swiss Eth Zurich, the Dutch Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam and Tilburg University, the University of Zurich, the Carlos III de Madrid and, finally, the Universitat Mannheim, the only German university in the standings.
