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Universidad de Alicante

SpainEurope

#781

QS World University Rankings 2026

Not listed

QS 2026 overall score

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Ranking data

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#781

QS World University Rankings 2026

#801

QS World University Rankings 2025

Not listed

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
21.1
QS 2026 rank
#589

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
11.5
QS 2026 rank
#701

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
36
QS 2026 rank
#556

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
14.2
QS 2026 rank
#801

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
11.5
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
21.4
QS 2026 rank
#704

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
27.5
QS 2026 rank
#644

International research network

QS 2026 score
79.3
QS 2026 rank
#362

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
10.4
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
70.9
QS 2026 rank
#301
University profile

About Universidad de Alicante

The University of Alicante spans science, health, law, engineering, and the humanities

The University of Alicante has faculties of economics and business, science, health sciences, law, education, arts, and a Polytechnic School, together with an International Doctoral School and permanent education. Its departments cover biochemistry, biotechnology, computer science and artificial intelligence, environmental science, marine science, geography, law, nursing, physics, mathematics, chemical engineering, software systems, languages, history, archaeology, tourism, and social work. This breadth lets a research question move from laboratory science to society, design, law, or culture.

A project in health or biology needs samples, patients, organisms, services, or outcomes. Engineering and computer science need devices, software, data, structures, materials, or performance tests. Environmental and marine work needs field sites, water, soil, species, sensors, or maps. Law, economics, education, languages, and the arts need institutions, markets, learners, texts, archives, audiences, or public decisions. The relevant department should carry the main method.

Alicante institutes support biodiversity, water, materials, archaeology, and digital research

The university lists institutes for environmental research, applied modern languages, social development and world peace, geography, international economics, Valencian studies, biodiversity, chemical processes, computing, electrochemistry, gender studies, Latin American social studies, tourism, materials, applied physics, archaeology and heritage, water and environmental sciences, and organic synthesis. Its research services also include scientific instrumentation, technical research support, the Alicante Science Park, and research stations at Font Roja, Torretes, and Marina de Santa Pola.

Alicante's Mediterranean setting can support work on marine biology, water, tourism, ecology, heat, urban growth, heritage, and regional planning. It can also be the place where a laboratory or archive is located rather than the subject itself. A proposal should specify what will be measured at the coast, in a park, in a city, in a museum, or in a dataset, and which institute can interpret the result.

How to assess a University of Alicante research route

Begin with the evidence and then open the department, institute, research group, and researcher page. Chemistry and materials need substances, surfaces, instruments, or measured properties. Computing needs code, databases, models, or users. Health needs people, clinical data, biological material, or services. Environmental and marine studies need species, water, soil, climate records, or spatial observations. Humanities, law, economics, education, and tourism need texts, rules, organisations, communities, visitors, or historical objects.

At the UA, classify the work as laboratory, computational, coastal, field-based, clinical, archival, textual, design-led, or policy research. Name the station, science park, laboratory, museum, archive, company, school, neighbourhood, or public agency that supplies the material. Alicante may be a marine field site, a heritage setting, a tourism region, or only the location of the campus. State its function and identify the first sample, map, interview, image, document, or measurement. This turns the university's long institute list into a clear path through one research group and one checkable result. The same description should explain what is outside the study as well as what is included.

A practical University of Alicante research question

A strong UA question joins a Mediterranean or scientific process with a defined measure. It might map biodiversity, test a material, study a water system, analyse tourism, examine an archaeological site, model a digital service, or evaluate a public-health intervention. Name the institute and evidence before adding another field.

Institution record

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

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