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EU-funded ranking finds benefits to university cooperation

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Bloc’s top cooperative institutions boast nearly four times as many joint degrees as non-EU universities

A university ranking system supported financially by the EU has reported that universities that cooperate with peers, businesses, government or other organisations perform better across a range of metrics than those without such ties.

“U-Multirank’s latest results show that cooperation really works in higher education,” said Frans van Vught and Frank Ziegele, joint project leaders of the ranking system. “Whether institutions collaborate with colleague institutions and/or with other societal actors, such as business and industry, social and cultural institutions, as well as governmental bodies, in all cases there appears to be a positive effect on performance.”

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