Rankings
The EUI is one of the leading social science research institutions in Europe, and with around 1,000 researchers at various levels in their careers also one of the largest graduate schools. The EUI Political and Social Science department was ranked first in Europe and fifth worldwide in the 2004 Hix ranking of such departments (it has appeared in the worldwide top 5 since 1995). In November 2009, the same department was included in the Die Zeit 'CHE Excellence Ranking' for political science.
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