London – Two Italians universities (both from Tuscany) made it onto the top 100 European universities ranking of the British THE – Times Higher Education, which carries out the periodic evaluation of global education institutions, focusing on various continents or on particular types of universities. The Scuola Normale Superiore and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, both based in Pisa, rank respectively in 50th and 90th. The ranking updates the global ranking released in the fall of 2015. On the European podium, there is the super-English trio Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London; yet Italy is gaining positions, bringing in a total of 19 universities – the other 17 all ranking between 101st and 200th place, these include: University of Trento, Politecnico di Milano, University of Bologna, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Padua and Trieste University, University of Milan and Turin University, the Federico II of Naples and the University of Pavia, University of Florence, Milan Bicocca, Verona University, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Rome Tor Vergata, and Roma 3. (9Colonne)
