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Nagoya University

JapanAsia

#164

QS World University Rankings 2026

60.3

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#164

QS World University Rankings 2026

#152

QS World University Rankings 2025

60.3

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
74.2
QS 2026 rank
#116

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
71.5
QS 2026 rank
#141

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
84.2
QS 2026 rank
#144

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
38.2
QS 2026 rank
#491

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
22.6
QS 2026 rank
#681

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
27.6
QS 2026 rank
#619

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
33.6
QS 2026 rank
#568

International research network

QS 2026 score
66
QS 2026 rank
#610

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
39.2
QS 2026 rank
#443

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
74.1
QS 2026 rank
#255
University profile

About Nagoya University

Nagoya University makes room for discovery, collaboration, and research support

Nagoya University presents research through discovery, collaboration, current scientific stories, and a wide set of research support routes. Its public material includes examples ranging from questions about law and architecture to plasma agriculture and nanofilms. Those examples are useful because they reveal distinct research objects. A legal question can be studied through institutions, documents, and social arrangements. A materials question can involve fabrication, measurement, chemistry, or physics. The examples should not be used as evidence that every field is connected in the same way. They are starting points for locating the research group that explains its own current problem and method.

The university's research page also links research activities, faculty databases, collaboration, research support, ethics, and technology transfer. These categories describe different parts of a research environment. A faculty database can help identify people. A collaboration page can show a connection. An ethics page can indicate research practice. A technology-transfer page can reveal a route from research to use. None replaces a local group description. When comparing a possible research setting, ask which page gives the clearest answer about the research object, the evidence, and the approach. That is the page that should carry the most weight.

Research organizations and support routes can narrow a broad topic

Nagoya University lists research organizations and institutes alongside faculty and research databases. This structure is useful for a topic that is too broad for a single department label. A question about molecules, particles, materials, health, society, or digital systems may be developed through an institute, a cross-disciplinary consortium, or a faculty-based group. Begin with the research object rather than the organization name. Then check whether the local source describes the same object, a compatible method, or a related dataset. This prevents a reader from confusing proximity in the website menu with a genuine research connection.

The public pages also refer to international collaboration and research support. These can be important context for a project, but they do not establish a specific group's current activity. A collaboration may concern one line of work, while another group in the same organization may use a completely different method. Keep a precise evidence trail. Record the local unit, the current item that mentions the topic, and the detail that shows how the work is done. If the detail is not public, keep the item as an early lead and wait for stronger local evidence before making a comparison.

Compare Nagoya research by following the closest public evidence

For Nagoya University, make the first profile note specific enough to test. It might be about a material, a physical process, a policy issue, an information system, a biological mechanism, or a social setting. Search for the relevant organization or faculty member, then describe the research practice visible on the page. Look for experiments, modelling, field observations, computational analysis, archival study, design work, or a different explicit approach. A clear method is more informative than an expansive theme because it shows how the research question is turned into work that can be examined.

A final comparison should remain current. Research news can mark a moment, an institute can host several unrelated projects, and an organization page may not list everything underway. Revisit the nearest group or researcher page before making a firm conclusion. Nagoya's public research structure is valuable because it offers several routes from a general topic toward more focused evidence. The most reliable outcome is a short statement that identifies the research object, the local academic setting, and the method that can be seen in official material, while keeping unresolved links open for another check.

Institution record

Country
Japan
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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