Dutch universities perform poorly in international rankings

Most of the Netherlands' universities dropped in this year's international rankings of the 916 top universities by QS. Last year there were five Dutch universities in the top 100, this year there are only two, NOS reports. The University of Amsterdam is the highest ranked Dutch university on the list at 57th place, two places down from last year. TU Delft is made it to 62nd place, up two spots. The universities of Leiden, Utrecht and Groningen dropped from the top 100. After TU Delft, only two other Dutch universities climbed in the rankings compared to last year - Wageningen University and University of Twente. Tilburg University dropped the most, from 293rd to 330th place. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known by its acronym MIT, came in 1st place for the fifth year in a row. Here follows a list of the Dutch universities on the QS World University Rankings for 2016

University	Ranking
University of Amsterdam	57
TU Delft	62
University of Leiden	102
Utrecht University	104
University of Groningen	113
Wageningen University	119
TU Eindhoven	121
Erasmus University Rotterdam	144
Maastricht University	173
University Twente	177
Radboud University Nijmegen	190
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	199
Tilburg University	330