Every ranking we publish ends with the same honest sentence: change the weights, and the list changes. This page lets you do exactly that. Below are the ten European universities for economics and the eleven business schools from our two rankings, with the same 0–10 points we published — but the weights are yours. Perhaps the school’s reputation leaves you cold and social life counts double. Perhaps safety is everything. Move the sliders, build your own university ranking, and watch the winner change.
Two presets reproduce our published lists: the student view (brand and quality 18% each, social life and food 16%, safety, tuition and housing 12% each, job access and language 6% each) and the CV view (quality 35%, brand 30%, job access 25%, language 10%). Everything in between is your own university ranking — and it is exactly as valid as ours.
Scores recompute live as the sum of our published 0–10 points times your weights, scaled to 100. Benchmarks in italics. Points as published in our two rankings; the judgement scores remain our editorial opinion.
Build your own university ranking: how it works
The calculator multiplies our published points by your weights and scales the result to 100, the same arithmetic as in the articles. What it cannot change are the points themselves: brand, social life and food, housing and job access remain our editorial judgement, and the published figures behind them come from the sources in the two original articles — the best universities for economics in Europe and the best business schools in Europe. If you disagree with a point, not just a weight, those articles show every number we used, with footnotes and links to primary sources such as the QS subject rankings, so that you can disagree with precision.
Points as of 11 November 2026. We used AI tools to help build this calculator and compile the underlying articles; the editorial team checked the figures and takes responsibility for the content. The result is general information, not study advice for your individual case.
Source: https://vapa.ch/build-your-own-university-ranking/ · vapa.ch
