Universität Regensburg
#691
QS World University Rankings 2026
25.4
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#691
QS World University Rankings 2026
#741
QS World University Rankings 2025
25.4
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
- 16
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 11.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 77.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #181
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 13.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 39.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #505
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 17.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #768
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 23.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #708
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 71
- QS 2026 rank
- #512
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 27.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #600
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 38.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
About Universität Regensburg
Regensburg frames its research around global change, material worlds, digital transformation, and life
Universität Regensburg organises its research profile around dynamics in the global world, material worlds and sustainability, digital transformations, and integrated sciences in life, health, and disease. These areas make sense as broad invitations, but each needs a concrete object before it becomes a workable question. A global-change question might concern a migration pathway, language community, political relationship, or historical process. A material-world question may involve a substance, ecosystem, infrastructure, or pattern of use. A digital-transformation question can concern an algorithm, interface, data practice, or institutional decision.
The university's twelve faculties, research buildings, core facilities, networks, and research centres add more detail to those broad areas. A reader does not need to choose a faculty first. It is often clearer to begin with the thing that changes or needs explanation. A disease question may start with a cell, tissue, gene, clinical practice, or population. A sustainability question may start with a material flow, landscape, energy system, or behaviour. Once the object is visible, the right disciplinary and technical routes become easier to recognise.
Geometry, quantum states, microscopy, and cardiology show Regensburg research at several scales
Regensburg research examples include generalised motivic methods in geometry, machine learning for complex quantum states, microscopy at the space-time limit, experimental cardiology, and gene editing. These topics sit at very different scales. A geometry question may focus on a mathematical structure, relation, proof, or abstraction. A quantum-states question may involve a model, computational method, physical system, or theoretical prediction. Microscopy can bring a question down to a visual or structural level, while cardiology and gene editing can connect biological mechanisms with health conditions and clinical questions.
The point is not to treat every topic as a technical challenge. Mathematical work can depend on concepts and logical relations. Machine learning can involve data choices, model assumptions, and interpretation. A biological question can involve cells, tissues, genes, medical practice, and patient experience. Regensburg's profile makes room for these differences through research structures and shared infrastructure. A focused question should still state the object, scale, and type of change being examined before it reaches for a broad label such as digital transformation or life science.
At Regensburg, begin with the changing system before choosing a broad research theme
A useful Universität Regensburg inquiry starts by naming a changing system. It may be a geometric relation, quantum state, cell process, gene, image, material, energy practice, data system, or social relationship. Add the setting where the change occurs: a proof, simulation, laboratory, clinic, field site, archive, organisation, or public space. Then decide what can be examined, such as equations, images, samples, measurements, code, texts, observations, interviews, or models. This helps turn a wide theme into a question that can be explored carefully.
From there, the university's profile areas and facilities can provide context rather than replacing the question. A research centre may connect work across faculties. A core facility may clarify a technical capability. A network may show how a problem reaches beyond one academic area. Regensburg is particularly useful for readers who want to move between formal, digital, material, and health-related questions without flattening their differences. The clearest route keeps the changing system visible while using the university's structures to deepen the inquiry.
Institution record
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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