The 2015 international CWUR rankings have placed seven Greek universities among the world's 1,000 best degree-granting institutions.The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is a global university ranking based on factors such as the number of faculty and alumni who have won prestigious international awards, the number of alumni who hold CEO positions at the world’s top companies, and the number of research papers appearing in highly influential journals. It does not use reputational surveys or university data submissions.
The National and Capodistrian University of Athens was placed 301st worldwide, followed by the Aristotelian University of Salonika (459th), University of Crete (515th), University of Ioannina (582nd), University of Patras (641st), the National Technical University of Athens (695th) and the University of Thessaly (905th).
CWUR began producing its world university rankings in 2012. The complete 2015 ranking is available on the CWUR website: http://cwur.org/2015/