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The ranking of linguistic universities in Europe will tell you which universities of the European Union are recognized as the best for the study of foreign languages, literature, language theory and applied linguistics.
Students from all over the world come to the best universities in Europe to study linguistics, here they find a wide range of programs in English and other European languages, as well as interesting internships.
Linguistic universities in Europe offer to study language theory, several foreign languages, research programs and the study of related areas: sociology, philosophy, pedagogy, computer science and others.
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Best Linguistics universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | University of Cambridge |
| 2 | Lancaster University |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 5 | UCL |
| 6 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 7 | The University of Manchester |
| 8 | University of Birmingham |
| 9 | University of Amsterdam |
| 10 | University of Zurich |
| 11 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 12 | KU Leuven |
| 13 | Leiden University |
| 14 | Radboud University |
| 15 | RUDN University |
| 16 | University of Vienna |
| 17 | University of Helsinki |
| 18 | Utrecht University |
| 19 | Stockholm University |
| 20 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 21 | Ludwig Maximilian Universität München |
| 22 | Universität Leipzig |
| 23 | University of Tromsø The Arctic University |
| 24 | HSE University |
| 25 | Sorbonne University |
| 26 | Queen Mary University of London |
| 27 | Complutense University of Madrid |
| 28 | Moscow State Linguistic University |
| 29 | University of Geneva |
| 30 | University of York |
| 31 | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 |
| 32 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna |
| 33 | University of Leeds |
| 34 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 35 | SOAS University of London |
| 36 | Universität Hamburg |
| 37 | University of Oslo |
| 38 | Saint Petersburg State University |
| 39 | University of Groningen |
| 40 | University of Nottingham |
| 41 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| 42 | Charles University |
| 43 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| 44 | Ghent University |
| 45 | Jagiellonian University |
| 46 | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz |
| 47 | Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz |
| 48 | Kazan (Volga region) Federal University |
| 49 | King's College London |
| 50 | Lund University |
