University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT) is Estonia’s leading institution of research and higher education. In the Times Higher Education New Europe Ranking 2018, it was ranked as the best university in the 13 countries that have joined the EU since 2004. UT is a driver of inclusive and sustainable growth and innovation in Estonia, Europe and globally. As an influential research centre: We belong in the top 1% of the world's most-cited universities and research institutions in clinical medicine, chemistry, environment/ecology, plant and animal science, geosciences, social sciences, psychiatry/psychology, pharmacology and toxicology, neuroscience and behaviour, biology and biochemistry, clinical medicine, microbiology.