Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)
#367
QS World University Rankings 2026
40.5
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#367
QS World University Rankings 2026
#385
QS World University Rankings 2025
40.5
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
- 29.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #406
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 20.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #643
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 94.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #82
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 22.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #679
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 100
- QS 2026 rank
- #70
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 43.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #463
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 42.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #492
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 53
- QS 2026 rank
- #796
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 58.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #283
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 52.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #655
About Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)
Universiti Brunei Darussalam connects specialist research with a broad academic map
Universiti Brunei Darussalam presents research through academic faculties, research institutions, research thrusts, research facilities, research experts, ethics guidance, innovation routes, and sustainability material. Its public academic map includes the Academy of Brunei Studies; arts and social sciences; integrated technologies; science; policy studies; education; digital science; health sciences; and business and economics. This arrangement helps distinguish a broad subject from the setting where it might be investigated. A question about health can require biomedical, behavioural, educational, policy, or digital evidence. A question about environmental change can involve biodiversity, energy, data, livelihoods, governance, or social practice. The central list gives a reader possible starting points, but a faculty or institution page is still needed to show the actual local research focus.
UBD also identifies specialist areas including biodiversity, energy studies, comparative education, precision medicine, genomics, sensor technology, halal science, herbal research, catalysis, smart farming, data analytics, and Islamic history, governance, and civilisation. These phrases are valuable because they name research objects more clearly than a generic subject title. Even so, a specialist label does not reveal every method used within it. Biodiversity work can involve field observation, samples, records, or environmental data. Sensor work may involve devices, signals, models, or applied settings. Comparative education can involve policy documents, classrooms, interviews, or longitudinal records. The reader should identify the evidence needed for the question before treating a specialist area as a close research connection.
Research institutions at UBD separate materials, data, biodiversity, leadership, and regional study
The research-institution list at Universiti Brunei Darussalam includes the Centre for Advanced Material and Energy Sciences, Centre for Advanced Research, Institute of Asian Studies, Institute of Applied Data Analytics, Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Advancement, and the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies. These units make the university's research landscape more usable because they indicate distinct routes through a topic. Materials and energy questions may need experiments, chemical or physical properties, systems, or engineering analysis. Applied data questions may require identifiable datasets, models, and computational practices. Biodiversity questions may need ecological observations, specimens, landscapes, or environmental measurements. Area and Islamic-studies questions may require historical sources, texts, communities, institutions, or policy records. The unit title gives direction; the closest local description supplies the research detail.
The university also makes ethics, research support, innovation, and patent-related routes visible. These pages describe important conditions around research, but they serve different purposes from a faculty or institution profile. Ethics material relates to responsible research processes. Innovation and patent routes concern how discoveries or inventions can be handled beyond their original research setting. Support pages describe organisational assistance. A reader should not convert any of these routes into a claim that a particular study has begun, received approval, or has a commercial path. For a focused comparison, retain only the part that is verified by the most local current page: the object being studied, the relevant setting, and the evidence or approach that the unit itself names.
UBD faculty and institution routes make research settings easier to locate
A useful Universiti Brunei Darussalam research note begins with a precise question. It could ask about the condition of a habitat, a material property, a data pattern, a health process, a farming system, an education practice, a policy question, or a historical or religious source. The next line should identify the evidence required to answer it. That might be field data, laboratory analysis, sensor readings, computer models, interviews, archival material, surveys, clinical information, or a designed technology. With those two lines in place, the academic faculty or research institution becomes easier to choose. The choice is based on the named research object and evidence, not merely a word that appears in a university menu.
A final local check keeps the profile accurate. A central UBD page can show that a research institution exists; it cannot by itself confirm a present project, research group, dataset, facility access, or individual area of work. Look for the institution's current material, a faculty page, a researcher profile, or a named research highlight. When that material confirms the topic and approach, retain the connection in a private research note. Otherwise, keep the match open instead of filling the gap with a guess. This method gives UBD's public research structure practical value while preserving the difference between a visible institutional route and a confirmed local research connection.
Institution record
- Country
- Brunei Darussalam
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- S
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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