Universidad de Alcalá
#697
QS World University Rankings 2026
25.1
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#697
QS World University Rankings 2026
#621
QS World University Rankings 2025
25.1
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
- 13.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 10.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 72.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #212
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 10.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 11.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 50.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #403
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 55.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #369
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 79.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #361
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 11.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 72.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #291
About Universidad de Alcalá
Universidad de Alcalá combines science, medicine, languages, and social study
Universidad de Alcalá in Alcalá de Henares presents study and research across arts and humanities, law and social sciences, economics and business, education, health, science, pharmacy, medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, engineering, architecture, and environmental work. Its degree search and faculty pages let applicants narrow a broad interest to a named programme. The university's historic and modern campuses support different academic settings, so location should be recorded with the faculty when a project depends on a hospital, laboratory, archive, or field site.
Language and culture are visible through modern languages, translation, literature, history, and the Cervantes-related research environment. Science and health units add biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, pharmacy, medicine, and nursing. Computer and engineering routes can address technology, communication, or industrial systems. These groups may overlap around data, health, education, or language, but the department page should define the method and the supervisory context.
Research at Alcalá connects health, environment, education, and culture
The university research environment includes institutes and centres for economic and social analysis, education, historical studies, language and literature, business organisation, police sciences, and other fields. A science or health project may use a laboratory, clinical environment, sample, or population. Environmental work requires a place, ecosystem, pollutant, or resource system. A language or history project can use texts, archives, translation, oral records, or cultural collections. The institute name helps locate a field, but the research group and programme page show how a proposal can be carried out.
Engineering and applied science can also connect with the university's work on communication, artificial intelligence, industrial processes, and sustainability. A project that mixes technology with education, law, health, or social analysis should state the contribution of each unit. This prevents the broad range of faculties from becoming a substitute for a clear research plan.
How to assess a Universidad de Alcalá study or research route
Start with the evidence. A biology or chemistry project needs a sample, reaction, instrument, or model. Medicine, nursing, and physiotherapy require a patient or participant group, outcome, care process, or movement measure. Environmental science should name the site and environmental variable. Engineering needs a system, material, device, or test. Humanities, translation, and social science should identify the language, text, archive, institution, or population under study.
This page provides general context about Universidad de Alcalá and cannot judge one faculty, institute, programme, or supervisor. For a UAH shortlist, name the campus and unit; write the question, approach, study language, expected result, and current route page beside it. Treat the centre and institute list as orientation until a faculty page connects it with a project. Specify whether the work uses laboratory, clinical, computational, archival, field, education, or policy methods. Record any need for a hospital, collection, laboratory, classroom, dataset, or external organisation before making a comparison with your preparation.
The campus and language context can shape the practical design. A translation project may require a defined language pair and corpus, while a clinical project may need a hospital setting and a measurable outcome. An environmental project may depend on a local site and a repeat visit. Keeping these requirements in the shortlist gives the reader a concrete next step when moving from a broad faculty page to a programme or research-group page.
Institution record
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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