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Universität Ulm

GermanyEurope

#546

QS World University Rankings 2026

30.2

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

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#546

QS World University Rankings 2026

#554

QS World University Rankings 2025

30.2

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
10.9
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
10.2
QS 2026 rank
#701

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
83.9
QS 2026 rank
#147

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
43.8
QS 2026 rank
#430

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
47.5
QS 2026 rank
#450

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
30.8
QS 2026 rank
#582

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
23.1
QS 2026 rank
#718

International research network

QS 2026 score
67.2
QS 2026 rank
#585

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
3.4
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
38.7
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Universität Ulm

Ulm combines medicine and STEM with four clearly named research profile areas

Universität Ulm describes itself through medicine and STEM subjects, four faculties, and a location within Ulm's Science City. Its public research material gives a more precise profile through Green Energy, Quantum Technologies, Life Long Health, and interdisciplinary data sciences and artificial intelligence. These areas are useful entry points because they name problems rather than offering only a generic label for science or technology. They still cover very different forms of inquiry. A battery problem, a quantum-system question, an ageing process, and a data-driven decision problem require distinct objects, methods, and sources of evidence.

The university's faculty structure includes engineering, computer science and psychology; mathematics and economics; medicine; and natural sciences. This arrangement can help a reader see when a topic needs more than one discipline. A health question may need molecular information, clinical context, behavioural evidence, statistical modelling, devices, or digital systems. A green-energy question may involve materials, electrochemistry, storage, modelling, production, infrastructure, or policy. The public profile does not make those connections automatically. It gives a credible map from which to look for a project, facility, group, or output that addresses the chosen issue directly.

The four Ulm profiles point toward different research materials and methods

Ulm's Green Energy material mentions batteries and fuel cells in relation to electromobility and the energy transition. Its quantum material refers to computation, secure data transfer, sensors, and physical phenomena. Its life-long health work concerns genetics, lifestyle, environmental influences, age-related disease, trauma research, and treatment. Its data-science profile focuses on extracting information from large amounts of data, decision-making, applications, and ethical questions. These are not interchangeable themes. Each phrase signals a different kind of problem, and a rigorous search should follow the one that matches the evidence a question actually needs.

The research page also refers to core facilities, research strategy and support, early-career development, and collaboration with international partners. Those routes are important context, yet they are not proof of a particular experiment, dataset, or available resource. A core-facility page may clarify technical capacity. A research story or group page may state a concrete activity. A support page may describe how researchers are assisted. Use these distinctions to build a short chain of evidence rather than relying on a prominent university-wide theme to support a detailed conclusion.

At Ulm, frame the research object before choosing a profile area or faculty

A useful Ulm inquiry starts by naming the thing to be investigated. It may be a storage material, a fuel-cell process, a quantum behaviour, a sensor signal, a health outcome, a trauma-related experience, a molecular mechanism, a model, or a decision process. Then identify the material needed to study it: samples, instruments, sensor readings, clinical or observational data, documents, images, simulation output, code, or interviews. This prevents a searcher from mistaking a high-level profile title for a completed fit assessment and makes the next local record easier to recognise.

Universität Ulm's official pages clearly establish a focused research structure and named profile areas. They do not say that every group within a profile has the same methods, current topics, or capacity for a new inquiry. A narrow claim needs a closer source that names the object, the research setting, and the activity. If the evidence only confirms an adjacent area, that still has value as an informed route for more checking. The profile is therefore most useful when it supports a transparent search process instead of suggesting certainty before local evidence has been reviewed.

Institution record

Country
Germany
Region
Europe
Status
Public
QS size code
M
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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