 The European Commission compiled a list of the 22 universities in the EU with the highest scientific impact.This ranking was compiled as part of the Third European Report on Science & Technology Indicators, prepared by the Directorate General for Science and Research of the European Commission in 2003 (updated 2004).By this ranking, the EU's top two research universities as defined by "impact" are Cambridge and Oxford followed by Eindhoven (Netherlands) and TUM (Germany) at 3rd and 4th places respectively.