University Complutense Madrid
#187
QS World University Rankings 2026
57.1
QS 2026 overall score
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
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
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
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