Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
#587
QS World University Rankings 2026
28.6
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#587
QS World University Rankings 2026
#580
QS World University Rankings 2025
28.6
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
- 24.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #519
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 4.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 45.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #432
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 36.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #514
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 6.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 33.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #557
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 24.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #687
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 98.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #21
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 9.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 50.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #696
About Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Université de Toulouse carries forward the Paul Sabatier science and health tradition
The official English page explains that Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier is now presented as Université de Toulouse. Since January two thousand twenty-five, it has operated as an experimental public institution and includes the École d'ingénieurs de Purpan as a component institution. The university reports nearly thirty-seven thousand students, seventy-four research laboratories and federative structures, and nine sites across Toulouse and nearby locations. These figures describe the institution's broad scale. The programme and laboratory pages are still needed for a route-level comparison.
The university's public interests menu covers health and care, sciences of the planet and universe, physics, life sciences, mathematics and digital fields, management and communication, sports science, environment, engineering science, chemistry, and space. This range gives an applicant a way to begin a search, but it should not be treated as one undifferentiated research offer. Each field has its own departments, laboratories, facilities, and methods.
Laboratories and science facilities connect Toulouse with regional and global questions
The public research pages point to a large laboratory network and to scientific heritage such as the Pic du Midi Observatory. Current news refers to a new estimate of Antarctic Peninsula ice loss, a supercomputer called Kairos that accelerates research, and calls linked to remote-sensing entrepreneurship. These items illustrate work in climate, computation, earth observation, and applied science. They are not a complete catalogue of available projects. The relevant research pole, laboratory, and supervisor must be checked for a specific proposal.
The nine-site structure also matters for applicants comparing academic settings. Toulouse, Castres, Tarbes, Auch, Castanet-Tolosan, Bagnères-de-Luchon, Lannemezan, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Moulis serve different local contexts. A laboratory page may explain methods, while a programme page explains where teaching and doctoral work are organised. Keeping the site, degree, and research unit separate makes the university's scale easier to understand.
A practical fit check for a Toulouse route
Write the research problem first and specify the data, samples, field site, computation, or engineering system it would require. Then use the university's interest areas to find a relevant department and laboratory. A question about glaciers may connect earth science and remote sensing, while a question about health, mathematics, chemistry, or sports needs another academic setting. Read the current degree information with the laboratory description and researcher profiles before treating a keyword as a fit signal.
The data panel provides institutional background about Université de Toulouse and does not evaluate one programme, laboratory, or supervisor. For a shortlist record, state the exact degree, research pole, laboratory, method, site, and the Toulouse page that carries the current route description. Note whether the work is tied to a campus in Toulouse or to another site, and keep the laboratory contact and research evidence in separate fields. This gives you a clear follow-up path if a programme or research page is revised. Because the university has many laboratories, the site and research pole help prevent two similar keywords from being treated as the same academic route. The same separation helps when a project includes both laboratory work and public or regional data before a degree choice is recorded in the working shortlist for later checking and revision.
Institution record
- Country
- France
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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