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Best Universities for Nutrition and Food Science in Europe

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in Europe ranked based on their research performance in Nutrition and Food Science. A graph of 19.1M citations received by 631K academic papers made by 810 universities in Europe was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Wageningen University

For Nutrition and Food Science

2. Ghent University

3. Lund University

4. Catholic University of Leuven

5. University of Reading

6. University of Helsinki

7. University College Cork

8. University of Milan

9. University of Copenhagen

10. Technical University of Denmark

11. Federico II University of Naples

12. University of Bologna

13. Polytechnic University of Bari

14. University of Hohenheim

15. Technical University of Munich

16. University of Porto

17. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

18. University of Nottingham

19. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

20. Complutense University of Madrid

21. University of Leeds

22. University of Granada

23. University of Oxford

24. University of Barcelona

25. Polytechnic University of Valencia

26. Utrecht University

27. University of Valencia

28. Warsaw University of Life Sciences

29. University College London

30. University College Dublin

31. Agricultural University of Athens

32. King's College London

33. University of Bristol

34. University of Saragossa

35. University of Zagreb

36. University of Padua

37. University of Belgrade

38. University of Groningen

39. University of Liege

40. University of Bari

41. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

42. University of Minho

43. Autonomous University of Barcelona

44. Aarhus University

45. Maastricht University

46. University of Turin

47. University of Cambridge

48. University of Murcia

49. Catholic University of Louvain

50. University of Lleida

51. Dublin Institute of Technology

52. University of Santiago de Compostela

53. University of Vigo

54. University of Parma

55. University of Turku

56. University of Novi Sad

57. Sapienza University of Rome

58. University of Seville

59. University of Oslo

60. University of Florence

61. University of Pisa

62. Autonomous University of Madrid

63. University of Cordoba

64. University of Vienna

65. Karolinska Institute

66. University of Lisbon

67. University of Montpellier

68. University of Bordeaux

69. University of Agriculture of Krakow

70. Imperial College London

71. University of Ljubljana

72. University of Perugia

73. University of Manchester

74. University of Birmingham

75. University of Messina

76. University of Bonn

77. Ulster University

78. University of Aberdeen

79. University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna

80. University of Glasgow

81. University of Life Sciences of Lublin

82. University of Surrey

83. University of Liverpool

84. Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf

85. University of Gottingen

86. University of London

87. Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

88. University of Edinburgh

89. Newcastle University

90. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

91. Norwegian University of Life Sciences

92. University of Aveiro

93. Delft University of Technology

94. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

95. Poznan University of Life Sciences

96. Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences

97. University of Extremadura

98. University of Burgundy

99. Queen's University Belfast

100. University of Hamburg

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