Germany's best economics degrees come from the University of Mannheim, according to QS. The university's economics department alumni list reads like a who's who of German economic talent. Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps, former federal minister of economics Werner Muller, and current Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann all studied at the university.
Also known as UC3M, the university is Spain's best when it comes to the study of economics and econometrics. UC3M scored well across the board, but did particularly well in the citations per paper category, scoring 82.1. Famous alumni include Pablo Iglesias Turrion, the founder of left-wing political party, Podemos.
Zurich is one of Europe's key financial centres, and that reflects in the quality of teaching in economics at the university. Despite relatively low scores for academic and employer reputations, according to QS, Zurich gets a bump from a citations per person score of 88. Famously bearish investor Marc Faber studied at the university.
The university, based in the southern Dutch town of Tilburg, isn't as widely known as many other universities on this list, but that doesn't mean that its no good. However, the university does seem to be on something of a slide. It falls three places from 2015's European ranking, and ten places overall.
Amsterdam's economics and econometrics degrees are the second best in the Netherlands, according to QS. The first ever president of the European Central Bank, Wim Duisenberg, taught economics at Amsterdam in the 1970s.
Erasmus is the best-ranked university for economics in the Netherlands. It's home of the Tinbergen Institute, named for 1969 Nobel laureate Jan Tinbergen, who worked at the school. It has climbed one place in the European rankings this year.
Switzerland's highest entry in the top 16 is best known for producing theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, who later taught at the school. ETH has jumped four places in terms of European schools this year.
Sweden's Stockholm School of Economics produced an influential group known as the Stockholm School in the 1930s, centred around professors Gunnar Myrdal and Bertil Ohlin. The school ranked 9th in Europe in 2015, and keeps that place this year.
A postgraduate-only institution, unlike most of the other schools listed, LBS concentrates on business and management degrees, where it's ranked as the second best in the world, losing out to Harvard University. Despite that focus, its economics degrees still rank as some of the best in Europe, and in the top 30 worldwide.
Warwick may not be a world famous university, but when it comes to economics, the university is certainly world class. The current chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has a masters in economics from the university.
The university, in Barcelona, tops the list for Spain, and is second for southern Europe overall. Andreu Mas-Colell, who teaches at the university, wrote the world's most widely read microeconomics textbook,"Microeconomic Theory." Pictured is Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Piketty (who didn't attend UPF), speaking at the university in 2014.
Bocconi is the highest ranked European university for economics outside of the UK, according to QS. Economist Mario Monti, who was drafted in as Italy's prime minister during the euro crisis, went to the school.
Ranking 16th overall in QS' ranking, UCL's economics department scored particularly well in the citations per paper category, where it scored 90.1. 19th century political economist and philosopher John Stuart Mill is one of the university's most prominent alumni.
Cambridge ranks as Europe's third best university for economics and econometrics, thanks largely to an incredible employer reputation score of 99.7. Famous Cambridge economists include Joseph Stiglitz, Milton Friedman, and John Maynard Keynes.
Oxford excels in every subject it teaches, and economics is no exception. It keeps its place from the 2015 QS ranking as Europe's second best university for economics. Four Oxford graduates and five academic staff have received Nobel prizes in economics alone.
Given its name, its not surprising that the LSE excels when it comes to teaching economics. Famous LSE alumni include 12 winners of the Nobel prize for economic sciences. The school keeps its place as the top European university for economics and econometrics from QS' 2015 ranking.
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