This is a ranking of the top 20 universities in the Benelux Union ranked relative to each other by average world rank for the year 2020-2021. 

The ranking was created by using metadata sourced from the four prominent rankings of world universities (each ranking released in 2020): Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE), and U.S. News & World Report (USNWR).

Rank was checked on each list for every Benelux Union university ranked on any each of the lists. Then for each university all its rank placements were averaged across lists to create the new list of average ranking for each university. The universities were then ranked according to their average ranking. The university with the highest average is thus ranked 1st, the one with the second highest average 2nd, and so on. 

Finally, the results were tabled, and are shown below (Table 1.). The leftmost column shows the final relative placement (relative placement based on average rank, i.e.), the “institution” column shows the institution ranked along with the flag of the country in which it is located, the next four rightward columns (ARWU, QS, THE, USNWR) show the rank for each given institution in each of those selected world rankings, and the rightmost column (“Average World Rank”) averages the four ranking lists’ rank placement for each university. 

Some observations —

• The original ranking which best predicts the summed average is USNWR.
• The original ranking which most poorly predicts the summed average is THE.
• No university in Luxembourg places in the top 20 Benelux Union universities.

If anything appears to be in error, please email me at tuulifunctional@snmcgannon.com.

Ranking of Universities in the Benelux Union, 2020-21

Rank	Institution	ARWU	QS	THE	USNWR	Average World Rank
1	University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱	101	61	66	40	67
2	KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) 🇧🇪	97	84	45	48	68.5
3	Utrecht University 🇳🇱	52	121	75	54	75.5
4	Leiden University 🇳🇱	80	128	70	86	91
5	University of Groningen 🇳🇱	69	128	80	92	92.25
6	Ghent University 🇧🇪	66	135	103	85	97.25
7	Wageningen University & Research 🇳🇱	151	115	62	83	102.75
8	Erasmus University Rotterdam 🇳🇱	80	197	72	68	104.25
9	Delft University of Technology 🇳🇱	151	57	78	172	114.5
10	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱	101	236	116	80	133.25
11	Radboud University Nijmegen 🇳🇱	101	214	136	103	138.5
12	Catholic University of Louvain 🇧🇪	151	189	164	148	163
13	Maastricht University 🇳🇱	201	234	121	189	186.25
14	Université libre de Bruxelles 🇧🇪	101	250	201	202	188.5
15	University of Antwerp 🇧🇪	301	238	170	212	230.25
16	Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🇧🇪	301	200	251	271	255.75
17	Eindhoven University of Technology 🇳🇱	401	120	187	349	264.25
18	University of Twente 🇳🇱	401	197	201	390	297.25
19	University of Liege 🇧🇪	201	451	351	370	343.25
20	Tilburg University 🇳🇱	601	368	201	490	415

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