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Aalborg University

DenmarkEurope

#306

QS World University Rankings 2026

44.9

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#306

QS World University Rankings 2026

#306

QS World University Rankings 2025

44.9

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
26.4
QS 2026 rank
#478

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
25
QS 2026 rank
#538

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
27.7
QS 2026 rank
#685

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
77.2
QS 2026 rank
#167

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
89
QS 2026 rank
#231

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
29.4
QS 2026 rank
#597

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
35.4
QS 2026 rank
#546

International research network

QS 2026 score
91.7
QS 2026 rank
#148

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
25.4
QS 2026 rank
#634

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
79.1
QS 2026 rank
#186
University profile

About Aalborg University

Aalborg University presents research through questions and research units

Aalborg University presents research as work that begins with questions and seeks responses to pressing global and local issues. Its research pages point readers to researchers, publications, projects, and research units through the VBN research system. This provides a practical route from a broad interest to a local setting. A query about energy, children and youth, sustainability, or another public issue can start with those terms, but the result still needs close reading. The useful evidence is the page that identifies the problem, the people working on it, and the way it is being investigated.

The university also describes a problem-based approach to research and an interest in foundational, interdisciplinary, and transformative work. That framing may be relevant when a question crosses traditional disciplines or connects with a real-world challenge. It does not establish that every unit shares the same methods or focus. A project involving energy resources may differ substantially from one concerning the wellbeing of children and youth. Use the central language as a guide to search routes, then let the local research description show whether the question, method, and context actually align.

Facilities and research cooperation are contextual evidence

Aalborg University makes research facilities, research cooperation, and collaboration with companies visible in its research structure. These pages can be helpful when a question depends on specialist equipment, a technical setting, or a relationship with organisations beyond the university. They do not establish that a particular team uses a facility or works with a specific company. Start with the group or project that addresses your research object. Then use the facilities or cooperation material to see whether there is a documented connection between the local work and the wider research environment.

The university's public material also describes research agreements with private companies and work on technologies and inventions. This can show that external cooperation is part of the wider research environment. It cannot tell a reader how any individual research relationship is structured. A careful profile gives more weight to a local page that describes a particular collaboration, research system, or technical problem. Where the relationship remains general, record it as background and leave the specific connection open for later checking.

Make an Aalborg comparison specific enough to revisit

For Aalborg University, write a short question before beginning a search. It might involve a resource system, a technical design, a social issue, a learning setting, or an environmental challenge. Use VBN or the university's research-unit pages to locate the nearest visible setting. Then ask whether the local material identifies the same object and a comparable approach. A common word is only a starting point. A useful research connection should reveal what is being studied, which discipline or combination of disciplines is involved, and why the setting is relevant to the question.

Conclude with a record that can be checked again. The university-wide pages establish a research environment that highlights questions, cooperation, facilities, and public challenges. They cannot establish every local research connection. Note the research unit, the evidence that supports your reading, and the point that still requires closer investigation. This keeps a profile honest about the difference between an institutional map and a confirmed research setting.

Institution record

Country
Denmark
Region
Europe
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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