The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) has designed an “ExcellenceRanking”. In the first round, the ranking concentrated on the natural sciences and mathematics.
The second round is dedicated to economics, political science and psychology. The centre applied a two-step approach for analysis. First, all European Departments in the surveyed fields were compared by a few general indicators. Second, for those departments that excelled in these indicators, an in-depth analysis was run based on an institutional questionnaire and a student survey.