Six Greek universities amongst top 800 institutions world-wide

Of the six Greek universities listed in the survey conducted by the QS topuniversities.com website, the Technical University of Athens was the highest ranked Greek institution for 2014.

Compared to the 2013 rankings, most of the Greek universities in the list either improved or preserved their standing, with the exception of the University of Thessaloniki.

The criteria for compiling the university rankings are academic reputation (40%), employer reputation (10%), faculty/student ratio (20%), citations per faculty (20%), international student ratio (5%) and international staff ratio (5%).