International students looking to study in Europe need to be smarter about which universities they apply to — studying abroad can be easily frustrating if you do not do the important things first; and that’s asking the right questions.
There are thousands of universities and colleges in Europe that accept international students, so providing a complete list here would be overwhelming. However, I can organize the most prominent and internationally friendly institutions by country, focusing on those that:
- Offer programs in English
- Actively recruit international students
- Provide student support, visas, and scholarships
Here’s a curated list of major universities and colleges in Europe welcoming international students:
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- University of Oxford
- University of Cambridge
- Imperial College London
- University College London (UCL)
- University of Edinburgh
- King’s College London
- University of Manchester
- University of Glasgow
- University of Bristol
- London School of Economics (LSE)
🇩🇪 Germany (No tuition fees at public universities)
- LMU Munich
- Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Heidelberg University
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Free University of Berlin
- RWTH Aachen University
- University of Freiburg
- University of Göttingen
- University of Mannheim
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
🇫🇷 France
- Sorbonne University
- Sciences Po
- École Polytechnique
- Paris-Saclay University
- University of Paris (Paris Cité)
- Grenoble Alpes University
- University of Strasbourg
- Toulouse School of Economics
- INSEAD (business school)
- HEC Paris (business school)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
- University of Amsterdam
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
- Leiden University
- Utrecht University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- Maastricht University
- Tilburg University
- Wageningen University & Research
- Radboud University
🇸🇪 Sweden
- Lund University
- Uppsala University
- Stockholm University
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Chalmers University of Technology
- Linköping University
- Umeå University
- Malmö University
- Örebro University
🇫🇮 Finland
- University of Helsinki
- Aalto University
- University of Turku
- Tampere University
- Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
- University of Jyväskylä
- Åbo Akademi University
🇩🇰 Denmark
- University of Copenhagen
- Aarhus University
- Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- Aalborg University
- Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
🇳🇴 Norway (No tuition for international students at public universities for non-EU is changing)
- University of Oslo
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- University of Bergen
- BI Norwegian Business School
- Norwegian School of Economics
🇨🇭 Switzerland
- ETH Zurich
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- University of Zurich
- University of Geneva
- University of Lausanne
- University of Basel
- University of Bern
🇦🇹 Austria
- University of Vienna
- Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
- Graz University of Technology
- University of Innsbruck
- Johannes Kepler University Linz
🇮🇹 Italy
- University of Bologna
- Sapienza University of Rome
- University of Milan
- University of Padua
- Politecnico di Milano
- Politecnico di Torino
- Bocconi University (business/economics)
🇪🇸 Spain
- University of Barcelona
- Autonomous University of Barcelona
- Complutense University of Madrid
- IE University
- Pompeu Fabra University
- University of Navarra
- University of Valencia
🇵🇹 Portugal
- University of Lisbon
- University of Porto
- Nova University Lisbon
- University of Coimbra
- Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics
🇧🇪 Belgium
- KU Leuven
- Ghent University
- Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
- University of Antwerp
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
🇵🇱 Poland
- University of Warsaw
- Jagiellonian University (Krakow)
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology
- Gdańsk University of Technology
🇭🇺 Hungary
- Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
- University of Szeged
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Central European University (CEU)
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- Charles University
- Czech Technical University in Prague
- Masaryk University
- University of Economics, Prague
🇮🇪 Ireland
- Trinity College Dublin
- University College Dublin
- University College Cork
- National University of Ireland Galway (now University of Galway)
- Dublin City University
- Maynooth University
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