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TOP Universities for the Study of Philosophy in Europe according to the QS World University Rankings offer undergraduate and graduate programs for international students.
Philosophy is a discipline that forms critical thinking, reasoning skills. Students studying this field can develop knowledge and understanding of life issues, skills useful in a variety of career paths such as business or government.
Steeped in a rich philosophical tradition, Europe has been home to many of the world's greatest philosophers and philosophical movements - from Aristotle's metaphysics to Hegel's absolute idealism, from Kierkegaard's existentialism to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, from Camus's absurd philosophy to Hannah Arendt's theory of totalitarianism.
Today European universities support this philosophical tradition at the world's leading universities. According to the QS World University Rankings, European universities are included in the list of TOP-50.
Best Philosophy universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 2 | University of Oxford |
| 3 | Ludwig Maximilian Universität München |
| 4 | University of Cambridge |
| 5 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 6 | University of St Andrews |
| 7 | King's College London |
| 8 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 9 | UCL |
| 10 | KU Leuven |
| 11 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 12 | University of Amsterdam |
| 13 | University of Bristol |
| 14 | Durham University |
| 15 | Université PSL |
| 16 | Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main |
| 17 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 18 | Central European University |
| 19 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| 20 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) |
| 21 | Sorbonne University |
| 22 | University of Turin |
| 23 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
| 24 | University of Leeds |
| 25 | The University of Warwick |
| 26 | University of Milan |
| 27 | University of Copenhagen |
| 28 | University of Geneva |
| 29 | University of Vienna |
| 30 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 31 | Birkbeck, University of London |
| 32 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales |
| 33 | HSE University |
| 34 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 35 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
| 36 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 37 | The University of Exeter |
| 38 | The University of Sheffield |
| 39 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |
| 40 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 41 | University College Dublin |
| 42 | University of Glasgow |
| 43 | University of Groningen |
| 44 | University of Helsinki |
| 45 | University of Kent |
| 46 | University of Navarra |
| 47 | University of Nottingham |
| 48 | University of Oslo |
| 49 | University of Zurich |
| 50 | Universität Hamburg |
