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Keele University

United KingdomEurope

#801

QS World University Rankings 2026

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QS 2026 overall score

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#801

QS World University Rankings 2026

#791

QS World University Rankings 2025

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QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

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Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
8.5
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
8
QS 2026 rank
#701

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
21.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
28.5
QS 2026 rank
#600

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
60.9
QS 2026 rank
#385

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
50.7
QS 2026 rank
#408

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
42.3
QS 2026 rank
#490

International research network

QS 2026 score
66.4
QS 2026 rank
#601

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
10.1
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
39.4
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Keele University

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.

Institution record

Country
United Kingdom
Region
Europe
Status
Public
QS size code
M
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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