Tallinn University of Technology
#635
QS World University Rankings 2026
27.2
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#635
QS World University Rankings 2026
#621
QS World University Rankings 2025
27.2
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
- 16.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 18.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #694
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 33.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #581
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 23.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #665
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 53.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #425
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 26.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #635
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 32.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #578
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 81.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #326
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 50.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #341
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 43
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
About Tallinn University of Technology
Tallinn University of Technology joins engineering, science, and governance
Tallinn University of Technology, known as TalTech, organises academic work through the School of Information Technologies, School of Engineering, School of Science, School of Business and Governance, and the Estonian Maritime Academy. The organisation page also lists colleges in Kuressaare, Tartu, and Virumaa. This structure makes it possible to follow a subject from a broad school to a department and then to a research group. The maritime academy is part of the same university map, so a question about ports, shipping, or marine systems may need a different academic home from a general engineering question.
The English programme catalogue currently groups four bachelor's and fourteen master's programmes across the schools. Examples include International Business Administration, Law, International Business in the Digital Era, Technology Governance and Sustainability, Integrated Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management, Marine Engineering, and Maritime Digital Solutions. The catalogue also names options in materials, wood, plastics, and textiles. These titles are useful search terms, but the live programme page remains necessary for checking the current curriculum, study format, and language of instruction.
TalTech research groups work on dependable technology and sustainable systems
The School of Information Technologies presents research groups in intelligent systems, biorobotics, embedded artificial intelligence, hardware security, dependable computing, environmental sensing, health technology, information systems, language technology, digital forensics, cyber security, applied artificial intelligence, high-assurance software, and the next generation digital state. The Computer Systems department adds work on reliability, security, verification, testing, cyber-physical and Internet of Things systems, embedded hardware and software, control, and machine-learning optimisation. These descriptions help an applicant move from a general interest in computing to a possible research setting.
TalTech's wider research areas include smart and energy-efficient environments, dependable information-technology solutions, future governance, and health technology. Engineering research pages name electrical machines, power systems, power electronics, mechatronics and autonomous systems, microgrids, metrology, energy economics, and high-voltage engineering. The combination is useful for projects that cross hardware, software, energy, transport, or public systems. It still does not show that every group is accepting a student or that a particular supervisor works on the exact proposed topic.
How to assess a Tallinn University of Technology route
Begin with the system or problem you want to study. A software project may need algorithms, secure systems, data, or a test environment. A hardware or energy project may require a device, grid model, measurement method, or materials process. A maritime question may depend on a vessel, port, logistics, or digital-navigation setting. Governance and business projects need a clear organisation, policy, or market object. The school and department pages can then guide the search toward a relevant group and supervisor.
TalTech's doctoral studies page describes research-oriented higher education in engineering, technology, natural sciences, and social sciences, with candidates working in supervisor research groups or industrial doctoral projects. This page offers institutional background on Tallinn University of Technology; it is not a judgement on one programme, group, or supervisor. Write the programme, school, department, project topic, method, study language, and live TalTech page into your working notes. Keep a broad research area separate from a claim about one project. It also helps to note the expected output, equipment or dataset, and whether the work is computational, experimental, field-based, or policy-oriented. That makes the comparison concrete and easier to revisit.
Institution record
- Country
- Estonia
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- M
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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