Khalifa University of Science and Technology
#177
QS World University Rankings 2026
58.8
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#177
QS World University Rankings 2026
#202
QS World University Rankings 2025
58.8
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 34.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #356
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 42.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #314
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 83.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #152
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 83.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #131
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 100
- QS 2026 rank
- #11
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 83
- QS 2026 rank
- #206
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 82.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #186
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 81.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #329
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 12.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 68.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #349
About Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Khalifa University connects academic colleges with research infrastructure
Khalifa University of Science and Technology organizes its academic work through colleges for engineering and physical sciences, computing and mathematical sciences, and medicine and health sciences. Its public structure also points to research offices, research and development facilities, research centres, technology management and innovation, research groups, and laboratories. This creates several different routes into a question. A college can show a broad academic home, a laboratory can show a technical environment, and a research group can make a narrower problem visible. Those routes should not be treated as identical. A reader looking at a computing question may need to distinguish an algorithmic topic from a systems, health, materials, or engineering context. The useful task is to identify the place where the research object is named and where the public description explains how it is studied.
Research themes at Khalifa University can be traced to specific centres and groups
Khalifa University's research material groups work around managed energy transition, sustainable and secure society, healthy longevity, advanced materials and manufacturing, and pervasive digitalization. It also describes research centres, technology management, research services, and laboratory resources. These headings can help organize an early search, especially for questions that combine technical and social concerns. Those headings cannot describe the full work of each individual group. Energy work can involve physical systems, materials, data, policy, or infrastructure. A health question can involve biomedical science, devices, computation, or public systems. Rather than assigning a topic to a broad theme too quickly, follow the relevant centre or group toward a page that identifies the real problem. That local page can show whether the work is experimental, computational, clinical, design-based, or organized in another way.
Compare Khalifa University through the local setting where research happens
A strong Khalifa University research note names one problem, one local academic setting, and one visible practice. For example, a reader might begin with energy storage, medical data, a manufacturing process, a security system, a material, or a mathematical model. The next step is to locate the college, centre, laboratory, or group that describes that object in its own language. Record what the group appears to do: measure a system, build a device, analyse data, model a process, test materials, or study a health question. This approach is more useful than comparing universities through broad subject words. It also keeps changes visible. Centres can add new projects, groups can shift focus, and a central overview may not carry the details needed for a final judgement. Revisit the nearest local page before treating a possible match as current.
The comparison can remain simple without becoming vague. Write one sentence on the research object, one on the setting where it is visible, and one on the method that appears most relevant. Then add a question that still needs checking, perhaps whether a particular laboratory works on the same problem or whether a named centre includes the relevant discipline. That final question prevents a central institutional category from doing too much work. It also makes later reading more efficient: the next page should answer a defined uncertainty instead of restarting the search from a broad theme such as digitalization or health.
Institution record
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- S
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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