University of Southern Denmark
#303
QS World University Rankings 2026
45.1
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#303
QS World University Rankings 2026
#324
QS World University Rankings 2025
45.1
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
- 29.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #425
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 24.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #540
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 31.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #602
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 68.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #227
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 91.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #212
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 46.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #435
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 51.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #403
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 77.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #394
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 27
- QS 2026 rank
- #607
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 85
- QS 2026 rank
- #110
About University of Southern Denmark
University of Southern Denmark makes research units and experts visible
The University of Southern Denmark presents a research structure that includes departments, institutes, centres, research units, publications, and expert profiles. This provides several paths from a broad subject to a local setting. A department can show a disciplinary home, while a centre or research unit may reveal a more specialised question. Expert profiles can help identify people working on a topic, but their value depends on the current material attached to them. Use each route to narrow the search, then find the page that identifies the research object and the unit responsible for it.
SDU's public research material points to subjects including health, artificial intelligence, schools, fertility, industrial robotics, democracy, digital media, and public debate. Those examples show a wide range of questions rather than a single set of priorities. A reader should not assume that a visible news item represents the work of every part of the university. Instead, use the story to find the relevant terms, researcher, unit, or project. Then check whether the public description explains a research problem that genuinely overlaps with the object, setting, or approach you want to explore.
Open publication material and collaboration give research context
The University of Southern Denmark reports that much of its research output is available through open access. It also describes dialogue between researchers and the surrounding society, with specialised academic environments working together on societal challenges. These are useful signs of how research is presented and communicated. They do not establish the methods or present activity of any individual group. A publication record may help you identify vocabulary and a line of work, while a current group page often makes the active question clearer. Read them together without treating one as a replacement for the other.
The university's materials include cooperation with organisations around industrial robotics and research connected with health care. Such examples may be useful when your question has an external technical or public setting. The key issue remains local evidence. Find the unit that explains the relationship between the research problem and any wider context. A university-level collaboration statement can be informative, but it cannot confirm the exact scope of a specific research team's work. Keeping that boundary visible protects the accuracy of a comparison.
Use SDU's research map to form a testable comparison
A focused University of Southern Denmark note begins by choosing the aspect of your question that matters most. It may be a health process, a technical system, a social behaviour, a democratic institution, a learning environment, or a form of data. Search for the department, centre, research unit, or expert profile that uses comparable language. Then look for direct evidence of the research object and approach. This two-step process is useful because a general subject can be visible across several units while only one setting addresses it in the way you need.
The final record should state what you found, not what you hope a broad theme implies. The central research pages show a large structure of units, publications, experts, and public engagement. Local pages are needed to establish a close research connection. Note the relevant unit, the question it appears to address, and the missing detail that would change your assessment. That makes the profile easy to update and avoids turning a general institutional description into a personal conclusion.
Institution record
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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