Athens, Greece – December 13, 2025 – The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) has become the only Greek university to rank among the world’s top 200 higher education institutions in 2025, securing 191st place in the prestigious Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (NTU Rankings), also known as the Taiwan Rankings.
Published annually by National Taiwan University, the NTU Rankings evaluate universities exclusively on research performance, scientific impact, citation metrics, and long- and short-term research productivity. Unlike composite rankings, NTU focuses purely on published scholarly output and the global influence of research, making it one of the seven most widely recognized and objective global university rankings.
EKPA’s achievement marks a historic milestone for Greek higher education, as no other Greek university appears in the global top 200 across any of the seven major international ranking systems in 2025.
In the field of Medicine, EKPA achieved an outstanding global position of 102nd worldwide, underscoring the university’s research excellence in health sciences.
Other leading Greek universities in the 2025 NTU Rankings include Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Crete, Harokopio University of Athens, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), University of Ioannina, University of Thessaly, and University of Patras.
For reference, in the 2024 Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR), which selected the top 2,000 universities out of 20,966 institutions worldwide, Greece was represented by 12 universities and Cyprus by 2.
Comment from EKPA Rectorate
“The entry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens into the global top 200 is the result of systematic investment in high-quality research and the tireless work of our academic community. This distinction belongs to every researcher, professor, and student who contributes daily to the international visibility of Greek higher education,” stated the Rectorate of EKPA.
Source: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens / NTU Rankings 2025
Official results: https://tinyurl.com/2tfknt56
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