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University Complutense Madrid

SpainEurope

#187

QS World University Rankings 2026

57.1

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#187

QS World University Rankings 2026

#164

QS World University Rankings 2025

57.1

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
78.5
QS 2026 rank
#101

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
73.9
QS 2026 rank
#131

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
41.6
QS 2026 rank
#486

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
12.8
QS 2026 rank
#801

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
18.2
QS 2026 rank
#736

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
32.9
QS 2026 rank
#561

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
38.7
QS 2026 rank
#511

International research network

QS 2026 score
92.7
QS 2026 rank
#132

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
97.3
QS 2026 rank
#53

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
80.4
QS 2026 rank
#163
University profile

About University Complutense Madrid

University Complutense Madrid maps research through groups, institutes, and shared structures

University Complutense Madrid brings research groups and lines, university institutes, research-support structures, a science park, and shared research assistance centres into its public research map. This map helps when one question may span several disciplines. A group may identify a focused line of inquiry. An institute may gather work around a broader area. A shared assistance centre can indicate a technical resource used by several teams. These structures should be read for their distinct roles. The presence of a centre does not show that every group uses its equipment, and a broad institute name does not reveal the method used by each project. A clear comparison needs to reach the page where the research problem is stated and where the local academic setting explains the work in its own terms.

UCM makes research practice, ethics, and research output visible in different places

The UCM research page refers to research ethics, biosafety, animal experimentation, open publication, libraries, scientific production, and administrative research services. These parts of the public structure show that research involves more than a topic title. A laboratory-based question may need to consider technical and ethical conditions. A humanities or social-science project may depend on archival, documentary, interview, or public-data practices. A group concerned with innovation may work through a different set of facilities and partnerships. The relevant page should make the connection clear rather than leaving the reader to infer it from an institutional menu. When comparing possible settings, note whether the research object is biological, technical, historical, legal, social, cultural, or mixed, then ask which resources and practices are actually named by the closest group.

Build a UCM comparison from a research object and an accountable local unit

A useful University Complutense Madrid profile begins with a single research object. It might be a molecule, a medical question, a public policy, a historical archive, a city process, a legal problem, a cultural text, or a digital system. Search the public research map for the group or institute closest to that object, then find a page that describes current work. The description may reveal experimental procedures, instruments, quantitative analysis, textual interpretation, archival research, design, fieldwork, or another method. This is the level at which comparison becomes meaningful. It lets a reader say why a particular setting is relevant without assuming that an entire university shares one research identity or one set of facilities.

It is also worth separating public infrastructure from a confirmed working relationship. A science park, research centre, ethics body, or publication service can be important context, but it does not automatically describe the daily work of a given team. Keep those elements in a background column and give priority to the local page that names the actual question and practice. That makes a UCM note both more accurate and easier to update when a project, group, or institutional structure changes.

This discipline matters when a topic sits between fields. A public-health question can be biological, social, legal, technical, or historical, and a digital question can be approached through computation, culture, policy, or design. The local unit should explain which version is in view before the profile treats it as a meaningful research connection.

Institution record

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

This date shows when this profile was refreshed. It is not a source-verification date from QS or the university.

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