Three Finnish universities have made the top 400 list of the Centre for World University Ratings (CWUR). The University of Helsinki topped the charts at 111th, followed by the University of Eastern Finland at 366th and the University of Turku at 383rd, with an eight-ranking climb.
As usual, the list had the US institutions Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as their front runners, closely followed by the British Cambridge and Oxford.
The comparative CWUR study included more than 25,000 universities worldwide. The centre has drawn university quality ratings since as late as 2012. During the first two years of its run it only listed the world's top 100 academic establishments – a list that, even when organised by another organisation, few Finnish universities have ever reached.
The CWUR listing ranks quality of teaching, effectiveness of education, reputation of academic staff and excellence of research via surveys and various data bank statistics.