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University of Navarra

SpainEurope

#262

QS World University Rankings 2026

49.3

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#262

QS World University Rankings 2026

#249

QS World University Rankings 2025

49.3

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
40.8
QS 2026 rank
#290

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
78.2
QS 2026 rank
#111

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
50.6
QS 2026 rank
#375

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
25.3
QS 2026 rank
#631

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
26.8
QS 2026 rank
#629

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
84
QS 2026 rank
#200

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
85.4
QS 2026 rank
#171

International research network

QS 2026 score
58.3
QS 2026 rank
#714

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
80.5
QS 2026 rank
#156

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
66.1
QS 2026 rank
#376
University profile

About University of Navarra

University of Navarra presents its research through areas, institutes, centres, and shared questions

University of Navarra describes research as an effort to address health, social, environmental, and economic questions through multidisciplinary teams and collaboration with other centres. Its research page groups activity into architecture, design and applied technical sciences; biomedicine and health; experimental sciences, environment and sustainability; and humanities and social sciences. This structure gives a reader several ways to approach a topic. A question about a built environment, a biological process, nutrition, data, environmental change, media, culture, public life, or economic behaviour can begin with an area, but the area is only the first map. It does not establish the exact group, project, material, or method that a narrow question will require. The next useful move is to identify a research centre or local unit whose public description names the object more specifically.

Several institutes and centres make the public map more detailed. BIOMA focuses on biodiversity and environment; DATAI brings together research on data science and artificial intelligence; the Institute for Culture and Society works on contemporary challenges through academic research; and CBIO addresses biomedical engineering. The research page also lists the Centre for Nutrition Research, CIMA, CEIT, and the Institute of Nutrition and Health. These names are informative because they separate subjects that might otherwise be bundled together. A health question could involve nutrition, biological mechanisms, clinical practice, engineering, or social conditions. A digital question could involve data methods, institutional use, communication, or another field. The official map helps locate possible directions, while the closest centre page is needed to determine the actual research connection.

Current project examples show different forms of inquiry without defining the whole university

The University of Navarra research page displays ongoing projects on subjects including alcohol and health, multiple myeloma, early breast-cancer detection, heritage rehabilitation, forestry residues, philosophical logic, media and democracies, and reading. These examples show a range of questions rather than one university-wide programme. A health item may involve clinical, biological, technical, or behavioural work. A heritage project may combine architecture, history, materials, or social use. A project on digital media may require political, communication, legal, computational, or cultural analysis. The sensible use of this list is to see how a broad area becomes a particular research object. It cannot establish that all researchers in a field work on the same issue or that a visible project offers a direct route for another proposal.

The institute descriptions also point toward different forms of evidence. BIOMA links environmental questions with a multidisciplinary setting and contacts beyond the university. DATAI refers to data and artificial intelligence across university centres. CBIO is concerned with knowledge relevant to prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis, while the Institute of Nutrition and Health connects research, teaching, clinical practice, and society around food-related health questions. Those descriptions can guide a more exact search. A reader should first state whether the work needs environmental observation, a dataset, a laboratory process, a clinical context, a technical prototype, texts, interviews, policy materials, or another evidence base. Only after that step can a named institute be assessed as a plausible local setting.

The University's institutional identity is useful context, but local research evidence remains decisive

University of Navarra describes itself as a Christian-inspired, non-profit institution and sets out values connected with truth, freedom, respect, responsibility, service, and dialogue between fields. Its public pages also name schools, centres, departments, chairs, the University of Navarra Museum, a science museum, and several campuses or associated settings. This information helps a reader understand the university's institutional character and organisational breadth. It does not substitute for a local research record. An institutional statement cannot tell a reader which team works with a particular sample, archive, population, device, or question. It is better used as context for interpreting the university's public language around research, culture, health, and service.

A focused University of Navarra note should therefore move from the question to the evidence, then to the closest named research setting. For a sustainability question, that may mean checking the relevant environmental centre and its current work. For a health question, it may mean distinguishing nutrition, biomedical engineering, clinical research, or another path before making a connection. For a humanities or social-science question, it may mean looking beyond a general institute description to the researchers, project pages, or material that are named locally. The university's public research map offers a rich set of starting points. A careful comparison becomes credible only when it records the specific connection that a current centre or project page actually makes visible.

Institution record

Country
Spain
Region
Europe
Status
Private not for Profit
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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