Beirut Arab University
#676
QS World University Rankings 2026
26.1
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#676
QS World University Rankings 2026
#641
QS World University Rankings 2025
26.1
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
- 20
- QS 2026 rank
- #614
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 22.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #597
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 28.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #661
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 7.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 94.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #180
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 61.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #334
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 56.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #362
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 29.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 44.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #401
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 42.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
About Beirut Arab University
Beirut Arab University brings engineering, health, science, and society into one map
Beirut Arab University presents graduate study through faculties of human sciences, law and political science, business administration, architecture, design and the built environment, engineering, science, pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, and health sciences. The faculty structure is important because a similar subject label can point to very different kinds of work. A public-health question may sit in health sciences, medicine, pharmacy, or a social-science unit. A technology question may require chemical and petroleum engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial engineering, or mechanical engineering. Start with the problem and follow it to the faculty that can produce the needed evidence.
The engineering pages also describe laboratories and departments in chemical and petroleum engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial engineering and engineering management, and mechanical engineering. The undergraduate list adds biomedical, communications, computer, electrical-power, renewable-energy, and other routes. These names show the range of the institution, but they do not establish that every route is open in every cycle. A programme page and the responsible department should be used to clarify the academic setting, project format, and current contact point.
BAU research connects science and technology with human and urban questions
The university research pages describe a central interest in developing and checking research quality, while faculty pages show how work is organised in practice. The Faculty of Science highlights research themes that support the university's wider research goals. The research centre for environment and development provides another route for projects involving cities, resources, environmental change, or community needs. BAU journals and research pages also cover science and technology, health and well-being, society and culture, and sustainable development. These outlets indicate subject areas; they do not by themselves establish a place in a particular research group.
A proposal can therefore take a laboratory, design, clinical, computational, policy, or community form. Engineering may examine a process, structure, device, network, or energy system. Science may focus on a chemical, biological, physical, or mathematical question. Architecture and urban work needs a site, plan, material, or user group. Law, business, and human sciences require an institution, rule, market, population, or cultural object. The most useful next step is to identify the faculty page that names the method and the people connected with it.
A practical way to compare a Beirut Arab University route
Write the research object in one sentence before selecting a programme. For an engineering plan, specify the system, material, test, or simulation. For health work, state the patient or community setting, outcome, and form of data. For science, name the sample, reaction, organism, observation, or model. A built-environment project should describe the place and design decision, while a humanities or policy project needs the text, rule, institution, or social process it will examine. This step prevents a broad faculty name from doing the work of a research plan.
This page gives general context about Beirut Arab University and does not judge one faculty, programme, laboratory, or supervisor. Save the faculty, department, subject, approach, language, output, and current BAU page in your shortlist. Keep university-level research offices and journal titles as background until a faculty page connects them with the proposed work. Mark whether the study is experimental, clinical, computational, design-led, field-based, textual, or organisational. Note any dependence on a clinic, laboratory, archive, site, or external organisation before treating the route as workable.
Institution record
- Country
- Lebanon
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Private not for Profit
- QS size code
- S
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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