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Figure 2-5: Students at universities by broad disciplines50,00045,00040,00035,00030,00025,00020,00015,00010,0005,0000200220052008AgricultureNatureTechnologyHealthEconomicsLawBehaviour & SocietyLanguage & CultureTeachingSource: VSNU (2009b)2.2.5 Dutch HEIs in an international perspectiveThe Dutch association of research universities, the VSNU, uses three different internationalrankings to measure the competitiveness and quality of the research universities within theNetherlands: ‘Leiden Ranking’, the ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ (ARWU) of theUniversity of Shanghai, and the ranking published by the ‘Times Higher Education Supplement’(THES). The ‘Leiden Ranking’ is a research ranking published by the Centre for Science andTechnology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University. It is entirely based on bibliometric indicators.The ARWU ranking is also entirely based on research results, but uses a completely different setof indicators: it puts a much greater emphasis on the number of Nobel Prize winners and FieldMedal winners, the number of highly cited researchers (HiCi) and the number of articlespublished in Nature and Science. The THES ranking is based on reputation and educational andresearch indicators, which are each given a 50% weight.Table 2-4: Leiden Top 100 European Universities 2000-2007Position University8 Erasmus University Rotterdam11 Delft University of Technology15 VU University Amsterdam18 University of Amsterdam19 Utrecht University27 Leiden University29 Wageningen University30 University of Groningen31 University of Maastricht40 Radboud University NijmegenSource: Leiden Ranking (2009)41