The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) has, more-or-less unsurprisingly, has been rated as the best in Greece and Cyprus, while placing 237th among roughly 32,000 higher education institutions in 200 countries around the world, as ranked in the annual Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities listing.
Following modern Greece’s biggest and oldest university is the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at 249th place, while the National Technical University (the Athens Polytechnic) lands at 378th place in the same list.
As far as Greece-based tertiary institutions are concerned, the University of Patras (524th) and the University of Crete (573rd) round out the “top 5”.
For the eastern Mediterranean island republic, the Nicosia-based University of Cyprus is at 619th place.
According to its webpage, Webometrics, otherwise known as the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, is a global university ranking compiled by the Cybermetrics Lab (CCHS), a research group within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The ranking assesses universities based on their online presence, visibility, and open academic content, using metrics such as external backlinks and Google Scholar citations.