University of Klagenfurt
#697
QS World University Rankings 2026
25.1
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#697
QS World University Rankings 2026
#611
QS World University Rankings 2025
25.1
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
- 7.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 5.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 57.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #318
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 16.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #777
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 98.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #138
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 94.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #127
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 95.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #108
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 43.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 13.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 36.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
About University of Klagenfurt
The University of Klagenfurt organises research through four faculties and 30 departments
The University of Klagenfurt in Austria is divided into four faculties, 30 departments, and a number of centres. The public organisation page includes departments in technical sciences, management and economics, humanities, social sciences, education, and language-related study. This structure supports questions that connect computing, business, culture, communication, education, and society. The directory helps an applicant narrow a broad theme to a unit, programme, and group of researchers who define the work.
The university's location in Carinthia can matter for a project involving regional development, mobility, sustainability, media, or public institutions. A technical question may require a computer system, network, model, or measurement, while a humanities or social-science question may use language, history, policy, or community evidence. A centre can link departments, but it does not replace the department page when a student is checking a specific route.
Research at Klagenfurt links computing with economics, education, and culture
Klagenfurt's faculty structure creates a useful setting for work in information and communication technology, artificial intelligence, software, data, management, economics, law, education, languages, literature, media, and social analysis. A computing project may address algorithms, networks, human-computer interaction, or information systems. Business research can examine organisations, markets, or decisions. Education and psychology need learners, classrooms, development, or assessment, while cultural and language studies require texts, communities, history, or translation.
Interdisciplinary work is strongest when the proposal says what each department contributes. A smart-region project may require a technical platform, spatial data, policy analysis, and local partners. A digital-humanities project might combine computation with language, archives, or cultural interpretation. The university research pages can identify the relevant group, but a programme or department page must confirm the academic setting and supervision.
A practical way to compare a University of Klagenfurt route
Name the object and the method. Computer science and engineering need a dataset, code, system, model, or test. Business and economics require an organisation, market, policy, or decision. Education and psychology should identify the learners, setting, behaviour, or measure. Languages and humanities need a text, archive, language, historical source, or cultural practice. Social research should state the population, institution, place, or public problem.
This page gives general context about the University of Klagenfurt and cannot decide one faculty, department, centre, programme, or supervisor. In an AAU shortlist, put the faculty and department beside the question. Include the approach, teaching language, intended result, and the relevant link. Use the four-faculty map to locate a unit, not to decide fit. Describe the work as computational, experimental, textual, educational, field-based, organisational, or policy-oriented. Note the dataset, community, archive, laboratory, or local partner needed to test whether the route matches your preparation.
The department map is most useful when paired with a concrete setting. A software project may need a platform, user group, or test environment. A language project may need a corpus, archive, or community. A regional study may need local records, interviews, or spatial data. Writing those requirements beside the proposed output helps an applicant compare interdisciplinary options while keeping the main research question clear.
For an interdisciplinary plan, keep one main question and list the supporting departments around it. This makes it easier to explain why a technical method, social setting, language source, or educational measure is needed and what each part adds to the final result.
Institution record
- Country
- Austria
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- S
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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