University of Lisbon
#230
QS World University Rankings 2026
52.9
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#230
QS World University Rankings 2026
#260
QS World University Rankings 2025
52.9
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
- 57.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #193
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 46.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #289
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 15.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 51.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #367
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 14.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 58.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #350
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 62.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #317
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 98.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #17
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 97.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #54
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 79.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #184
About University of Lisbon
Schools, research units, laboratories, and a research portal create a layered ULisboa map
University of Lisbon, also presented as ULisboa, makes schools, research units, associate laboratories, and a research portal visible in its public overview. This structure provides several routes from a broad field to a more concrete research setting. A school can show an academic base, a research unit can identify a continuing community of inquiry, an associate laboratory can indicate a shared research environment, and the portal can help locate research information. These layers should not be treated as identical. A research unit may offer a closer place to understand a topic, while a school supplies the disciplinary context and a portal helps trace a person, output, or project.
The public overview also describes a wide range of knowledge areas and highlights research and innovation across the university. That is useful background for an interdisciplinary question, but it does not identify the right local home on its own. A question about water, mobility, health, architecture, law, digital systems, agriculture, or social change needs to be narrowed to its object and method. The next page to examine is the one that names a research unit, laboratory, researcher, or project that works with that evidence. This preserves the difference between a large institutional ecosystem and a specific research context.
Researcher development, data care, biosafety, and professional conduct are supporting contexts
ULisboa's public research material describes an institutional process concerned with researcher development and the wider research environment. The topics mentioned include data management, biosafety, communication, mentoring, training, career development, equality, and professional conduct. These are important conditions around research, especially when work uses data, biological material, interdisciplinary teams, or shared resources. They should not be mistaken for direct evidence of a particular study. The direct study page must make clear what is being investigated and how the relevant methods are being used.
This distinction can clarify a complex research question. Data management may be relevant to a computational or social-science project, while biosafety may matter to laboratory work. Communication and mentoring may be important parts of a researcher environment but do not tell a reader whether a group studies a particular material, population, or system. By keeping support conditions separate from the research object, a profile can describe both without overreaching. University of Lisbon's public information helps map the ecosystem around researchers; a smaller academic page should establish the direct subject connection.
Use the University of Lisbon structure to test a narrow research connection
A practical University of Lisbon research note starts with a question that can be tied to evidence. It may involve a water system, clinical process, social group, urban space, legal source, ecological condition, data model, material, or cultural record. Then identify the closest school and the research unit, laboratory, or working group that visibly anchors the subject. The research portal can help locate relevant records, but the explanation should remain close to the primary research home. If the topic needs a wider institutional condition such as data care or biosafety, include that only after the direct academic link has been established.
Close with the question that the available pages have not answered. A research unit may fit a field while its current projects are unclear. A portal record can show an output without establishing an ongoing line of work. A university-level process can describe a research environment without showing a specific method. These limits make the profile easier to revise and trust. University of Lisbon makes its schools, research units, laboratories, portal, and researcher-environment material visible. A carefully bounded evidence trail turns that information into a useful comparison of one possible research setting.
Institution record
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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