The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) created a ranking for a selected group of European universities, the "CHE Excellenceranking", in the fields of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics in the first cycle and in 2009, added the fields of political science, psychology and economics as a sequel.
On the basis of our longstanding experience with ranking European higher education institutions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, the CHE intends to contribute to the development of the European Higher Education Area while demonstrating the competitive strength of European universities.
Source: <CHE Excellence Ranking (.pdf)>