Universidad del Pais Vasco
#624
QS World University Rankings 2026
27.5
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#624
QS World University Rankings 2026
#641
QS World University Rankings 2025
27.5
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
- 28.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #435
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 10.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 38.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #530
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 27.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #608
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 6.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 4.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 90.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #172
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 31.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #533
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 51.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #673
About Universidad del Pais Vasco
Universidad del Pais Vasco works across three Basque campuses
The University of the Basque Country, also known as UPV/EHU, describes itself as a public teaching and research institution with campuses in Bilbao, San Sebastian, and Vitoria. An official university page describes thirty-one faculties and schools and more than fifty-seven thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students, while other current university systems organise people, departments, projects, and research groups through a searchable scientific-production portal. The multi-campus structure matters because the same broad subject may be taught in different centres with different languages, facilities, and local connections.
The university's mission pages place education, research, innovation, equity, and Basque linguistic heritage in the same institutional frame. They also describe a research-oriented educational model and a commitment to scientific, technical, humanistic, and artistic work. These are useful university-level signals, not evidence for one programme. A prospective student still needs to identify the faculty, school, department, degree route, and research group that address the proposed question. The three-campus setting can affect language, travel, equipment, and local partnerships, so it belongs in the comparison notes as well.
UPV/EHU research information can be searched by field and research group
The scientific-production portal lets a reader search by area of knowledge, department, centre, research group, project, and individual researcher. At the time of the university page update, it displayed 6,034 researchers, 9,404 projects, 193,882 publications, 11,687 theses, and 86,806 open-access items. The portal states that its data are updated daily and gives a date for the current structure. These figures are valuable for orientation, but they do not show whether one group is recruiting or whether a particular programme uses a named project.
Engineering examples on the public research pages include natural-language processing, networking quality and security, sustainable process engineering, renewable energy in marine environments, microelectronics, nuclear and radiological safety, product design, photothermal techniques, and polymeric biomaterials. Other pages describe research ethics for projects involving people, animals, biological agents, and personal data. These structures help an applicant identify the right method and safeguards before comparing a route.
How to assess a University of the Basque Country option
Define the object, method, and setting of the proposed work. If it concerns language, education, or identity, note whether the project needs Basque, Spanish, or another language context. If it concerns engineering, data, materials, or health, record the instrument, model, dataset, or ethical review that the work would require. Use the faculty and school pages to locate the department, then use the production portal to check the research group and individual staff record connected to the topic.
The data panel provides institutional background about Universidad del Pais Vasco and does not assess one degree, faculty, research group, or supervisor. For your shortlist, record the programme, campus, academic unit, topic, approach, language setting, and the live UPV/EHU page that carries the route description. Keep portal totals separate from evidence about personal fit. A clear note should also state whether the project is theoretical, experimental, computational, field-based, or artistic, because those categories lead to different facilities and supervision needs. Add the population, material, or technical system being studied, and say how success would be observed or measured. That extra detail makes a broad research listing useful for an actual planning decision.
Institution record
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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