According to Utrecht University, rankings place “too much emphasis on scoring and competition”, while the university says it considers collaboration and openness of scientific research to be more important. Moreover, according to the Utrecht academy, it is “virtually impossible to capture the quality of an entire university with all the different courses and disciplines in one figure”. In addition, Utrecht has doubts about the way in which the ranking is drawn up.
Utrecht University deliberately did not want to be included in the world university rankings
