Keele University
#801
QS World University Rankings 2026
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QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#801
QS World University Rankings 2026
#791
QS World University Rankings 2025
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QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
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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
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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