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Keele University

United Kingdom Public

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QS 2026 rank
#801
Down 10 places since 2025
QS 2025 rank
#791
Overall score
Not published
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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.

Academic reputation 8.5

#701 worldwide

Employer reputation 8

#701 worldwide

Faculty-student ratio 21.3

#801 worldwide

Citations per faculty 28.5

#600 worldwide

International faculty ratio 60.9

#385 worldwide

International student ratio 50.7

#408 worldwide

International student diversity 42.3

#490 worldwide

International research network 66.4

#601 worldwide

Employment outcomes 10.1

#801 worldwide

Sustainability 39.4

#801 worldwide

Institution profile

How QS classifies this institution

QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.

Size
Medium
About 5,000 to 12,000 students
Subject range
Focused
Teaches a limited range of faculty areas
Research intensity
Very high
Very high research output in the QS classification
Region
Europe
QS regional grouping

University profile

About Keele University

Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.

Keele University connects natural science, health, humanities, and social research

Keele University organises its academic work through faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Its research pages describe work in business, humanities, law, social sciences, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, allied health, chemistry, physics, astrophysics, computer science, mathematics, geography, geology, environment, life science, and psychology. The university's broad subject structure makes it possible to study a scientific problem alongside its social, legal, or public setting.

Natural science needs organisms, materials, equations, instruments, data, or field observations. Health research needs patients, clinical services, biological samples, or care records. Humanities and social sciences need texts, archives, institutions, communities, markets, laws, or public decisions. A project should begin with one research theme and a named school, centre, or laboratory that owns the evidence.

Keele centres support global health, regenerative medicine, ecology, and public life

Keele lists centres for applied entomology and parasitology, astrophysics, glycoscience, musculoskeletal health, regenerative medicine, policing, primary care, and health and care data. Its medicine research themes include biomedical science, cardiovascular and renal work, global health, health literacy, professional education, mental health, long-term conditions, neuroscience, public health, and social care. Natural science pages also connect materials chemistry, computational intelligence, sustainable energy, ecology, and molecular biosciences.

The university's campus and surrounding Staffordshire setting can support work on land, health services, communities, policing, environmental change, and rural systems. A laboratory study may use a controlled sample or a model instead. State the centre, clinical partner, field station, archive, dataset, or instrument that supplies the material, and explain how a result will be checked.

How to assess a Keele University research route

Follow the object through the faculty, school, institute, centre, and current researcher. Entomology and parasitology need insects, pathogens, hosts, or vector data. Astrophysics needs observations, simulations, or instruments. Regenerative medicine needs cells, tissues, devices, or clinical measures. Computer science and mathematics need code, models, algorithms, or datasets. Business, law, education, and social research need firms, rules, learners, communities, or policy records.

At Keele, frame the work as clinical, laboratory, computational, ecological, community, archival, organisational, or policy research. Identify the clinic, laboratory, farm, woodland, school, police partner, archive, company, or data network that provides the evidence. Keele may be a rural field context, a clinical base, or merely the university location. Explain that role, name the first sample, image, interview, model, record, or measurement, and keep the question within one research group for practical research.

A practical Keele University research question

A useful Keele question links a health, environmental, scientific, or social process to a defined observation. It might examine primary care, model a disease vector, test a material, study a long-term condition, analyse a policing practice, map habitat, or evaluate a public service. Identify the faculty, research centre, evidence base, and opening method. Set the patient group, species, site, dataset, or time window before widening the question to a national or global comparison. Include the participant group, species, sample, or policy boundary and explain why the selected centre can interpret it. A narrow method is more useful than a list of connected challenges. Keep the outcome tied to one population, process, or observation rule. This keeps the question useful for a named research group.