Delft University of Technology
#47
QS World University Rankings 2026
84.3
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#47
QS World University Rankings 2026
#49
QS World University Rankings 2025
84.3
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
- 86.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #76
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 90.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #71
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 49.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #392
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 84.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #126
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 100
- QS 2026 rank
- #68
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 94.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #128
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 95.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #109
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 93.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #102
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 66
- QS 2026 rank
- #235
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 96.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #15
About Delft University of Technology
Choose a Delft degree before using the university's technical profile
Delft University of Technology, often called TU Delft, presents its education through bachelor's, master's, doctoral, exchange, and continuing-learning routes. For a prospective graduate student, the master's or doctoral programme is the proper starting point, not the broad idea of a technical university. The degree page identifies the formal route through which you would study, while the faculty page supplies the subject setting. This becomes important when a topic such as digital technology, energy, design, health, or the built environment appears in several parts of the university. Similar themes can lead to programmes with different methods, project formats, and professional or research directions.
Use TU Delft's programme information to separate the course title from the actual work involved. A name that sounds close to your interests may still emphasise a different technical foundation or a different kind of project. Read the programme's curriculum, expected background, and current description of study activity. Then compare that evidence with what you have already studied or built. A focused decision does not require you to know everything about the university. It requires you to know which programme is meant to develop the next part of your skills and why that route fits the problem you care about.
Place a TU Delft research interest in the right faculty setting
TU Delft's research pages organise information around societal challenges, faculties and institutes, research facilities, and public research output. They highlight areas such as health, digital technology, climate, and energy. This is useful context for applicants whose work has an applied or interdisciplinary dimension. It is not proof that a particular programme includes every laboratory, data source, facility, or project shown on a university research page. The reliable method is to locate the faculty that houses the selected degree, then see how the programme and its academic staff connect to the research area. That link matters more than the number of related topics on the wider site.
Research facilities can be an important part of a technical learning environment, but they should be read carefully. A clean room, fieldlab, institute, or partnership may support specific researchers and projects rather than every degree in a neighbouring field. Look for current material that puts a programme or faculty in that setting. This can include a programme page, a faculty research page, or a named academic profile. If the connection is not explicit, keep it as a question. A good application is strengthened by an accurate account of the environment, not by a long list of facilities that may have no direct relationship to the student's route.
Use a Delft problem-and-method comparison
A helpful TU Delft comparison begins with a problem-and-method pair. Write the problem you want to address in one sentence, then name the method or technical skill you need to develop. Place the exact degree next to that pair. Afterward, add a faculty or research setting only when it has a clear connection to the course. This format makes it easier to compare TU Delft with other technical options because it focuses on the work you would actually undertake. It also stops a general interest in innovation or technology from replacing the more difficult task of choosing the right academic path.
Before acting on a Delft option, reopen the selected programme's live page and confirm the current route for your degree. Review its preparation, language, documents, and any programme-specific instructions. Those details should come from the course that would manage your study, not from a general TU Delft page. Delft University of Technology is a well-supported choice when the problem, method, degree, and faculty setting form one clear line. When the research context is attractive but the degree remains uncertain, continue narrowing the comparison until you can state exactly what the programme would allow you to learn and do.
Institution record
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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