QS ranking profile
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
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- QS 2026 rank
- #461
- Down 72 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #389
- Overall score
- 33.9
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QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Small
- Fewer than 5,000 students
- Subject range
- Specialist
- Concentrated in a single subject area
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Europe
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele
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UniSR places medicine, psychology, and philosophy beside research centres with different roles
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, often called UniSR, presents an academic setting in which medicine, psychology, and philosophy sit alongside a visible research-centre directory. The directory names areas such as experimental imaging, omics sciences, biomedical statistics, nursing research and innovation, ethics and politics, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, experimental and applied epistemology, history of ideas, gender studies, and the study of behaviour and communication. Rather than portraying all subjects as interchangeable, the directory shows that a question about disease, cognition, care, language, image, social practice, or ethical judgment can require a very different local context.
The research-centre names are best used as orientation. Experimental imaging points toward questions where visual or morphological evidence matters. Omics sciences provides a route for questions involving genomes, disease development, diagnosis, or cure. A statistics centre may be relevant when the problem concerns quantitative biomedical evidence. Centres in ethics, politics, philosophy, history, and gender studies point toward human and social material that cannot be reduced to a laboratory measurement. A centre title establishes a visible area of organisation; a closer page is still needed to understand the specific research object, approach, or output behind it.
Research news provides focused clues, not a single picture of the university
UniSR's public research news gives concrete examples that can guide a more focused search. Recent items address IgG4-related disease, kidney-cancer risk modelling before surgery, relapse mechanisms after bone-marrow transplantation, neuromyelitis optica, chronic hepatitis B, vitiligo, genetics, and questions about an ageing population. These reports matter because they narrow a large institutional map into named clinical, biological, computational, and social questions. They should not be combined into a general claim that the university uses one shared method. Disease mechanisms, risk models, transplantation, immune conditions, and questions of justice each involve different materials and forms of evidence.
For example, a kidney-cancer model may involve clinical records, image data, model construction, and evaluation. Research on relapse after transplantation may move through cellular mechanisms, clinical context, and longitudinal evidence. A study of ageing as a question of justice can call for philosophical, social, legal, or policy materials. The news pages can supply useful terms, but a news report is not equivalent to a laboratory, project, or research-group record. Follow the chosen clue to the smallest public setting that describes what is being investigated and how it is situated.
At UniSR, use the named research centre to sharpen a biomedical or human question
A productive UniSR inquiry starts with the thing to be understood. It could be a disease mechanism, a clinical decision, an image-based observation, a genomic pattern, a communication difficulty, an ethical problem, or a social experience of care. The next question is what would count as evidence: biological samples, clinical data, medical images, statistical models, texts, interviews, policy documents, or observed interactions. This wording makes the centre directory and research news more useful. It helps distinguish a subject that needs an imaging setting from one that calls for biomedical statistics or a centre concerned with ethics and politics.
The final description should reflect the closest public record rather than the breadth of the university as a whole. UniSR's main pages show an institutional connection among several fields and a range of research-centre routes. They do not settle whether an individual group is working on a new question at a given moment or which resources it can provide. When a centre, publication, or project record makes the object and setting visible together, that is the point at which a careful connection can be stated. Until then, the public map remains a useful route for further investigation.