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- VUB Ranking Highlights
- VUB University Ranking
- VUB US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- VUB QS Ranking 2025
- VUB THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- VUB ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
- VUB Course Ranking
VUBRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Vrije Universiteit Brussel has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Vrije Universiteit Brussel stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated B+ by Shiksha Grading, Vrije Universiteit Brussel is also rated A for LL.M.. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel courses are in the range of A and C++ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ranks #278, which is declining in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #259 in 2024. Vrije Universiteit Brussel also ranks #201 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, Vrije Universiteit Brussel witnessed a stable trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #201 in 2023.
Check out more details on Vrije Universiteit Brussel ranking in the below content.
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VUBUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 292 | 306 |
VUBQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | – / – | 99 | 114 |
| World University | 251 | 259 | 278 |
| Architecture and Built Environment | 201 | 151 | – / – |
| Biological Sciences | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Communication and Media Studies | 51 | 101 | – / – |
| Engineering and Technology | 399 | 337 | – / – |
| Law and Legal Studies | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Mathematics | 301 | 301 | – / – |
| Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | 351 | 401 | – / – |
| Medicine | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Pharmacy and Pharmacology | – / – | 251 | – / – |
| Physics and Astronomy | 251 | 251 | – / – |
| Politics | 101 | 101 | – / – |
| Sociology | 201 | 151 | – / – |
VUBTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 251 | 201 | 201 |
| Arts and Humanities | 176 | 176 | 176 |
| Clinical and Health | 301 | 301 | 201 |
| Engineering | 201 | 176 | 201 |
| Law | 41 | 59 | 55 |
| Life Sciences | 151 | 176 | 176 |
| PG Business and Economics | 176 | 251 | 251 |
| PG Computer Science | 301 | 301 | 251 |
| Psychology | 251 | 201 | 201 |
VUBARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universities | 301 | 301 | 301 |
| Law | 101 | 101 | – / – |
| Mathematics | 401 | – / – | – / – |
| Physics | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Political Sciences | 201 | 201 | – / – |
VUBCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded Vrije Universiteit Brussel streams, such as Law, Engineering, and Science with A, B+, and B+ grades, respectively. The availability of multiple rankings on the web can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
When it comes to global level course rankings of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Communication & Media Studies, Politics, Law, and Arts & Humanities courses of the university rank well in the rankings by QS and THE. Its Communication & Media Studies program has been ranked at #101 by QS 2024. Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ranks well for Politics course as well. According to QS 2024, the Politics course ranks at #101 in the 2024, whereas, in 2023, its ranking stood at #101.
In the rankings by THE Law 2024, Vrije Universiteit Brussel ranks at #55. Know more about Vrije Universiteit Brussel courses and subject rankings in the below article.
LL.M.
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Law and Legal Studies | - | 151 | 201 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Law | 151 | 101 | 101 |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Law | - | 41 | 59 |
M.A.
| Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Sociology | - | 151 | 201 |
| QS - Politics | - | 101 | 101 |
| QS - Communication and Media Studies | - | 51 | 51 |
| ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Political Sciences | 151 | 201 | 201 |
| THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | - | 176 | 176 |
M.Arch
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QS - Architecture and Built Environment | 201 | 201 | 151 |
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