Swansea University
#292
QS World University Rankings 2026
46.2
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#292
QS World University Rankings 2026
#298
QS World University Rankings 2025
46.2
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
- 34.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #348
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 54.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #222
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 28.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #666
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 43
- QS 2026 rank
- #439
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 76.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #312
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 80.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #221
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 82.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #187
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 79.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #357
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 13.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 84.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #121
About Swansea University
Research highlights sit alongside an explicit research environment
Swansea University describes itself as research-led and makes research highlights, expertise, impact, integrity, ethics, governance, and research culture visible from the same public research area. This is helpful for a question that needs both a subject match and an understanding of the conditions around the work. A research highlight can reveal a concrete problem, while an integrity or governance page explains shared expectations. They have different purposes. A highlight may show a result from one team, whereas a central framework applies across many teams. Keep those layers apart when deciding what a local research setting actually demonstrates.
The university's public examples move across areas such as artificial intelligence and cancer detection, public health, social questions, and biological research. Its research material also connects work to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to a civic mission. These are useful starting points for questions with practical or social consequences. They do not show how one group defines its own research design. A stronger search follows a highlighted issue toward a named researcher, centre, school, project, or publication record, then asks what evidence, method, and community relationship appear in that local setting.
Collaboration routes connect technical, social, and policy work
Swansea's research pages refer to collaboration with other universities and industry partners, as well as doctoral training partnerships and centres for doctoral training. The material specifically points to future-facing disciplines that include AI, materials manufacturing, social sciences, and policy. This is useful for a project that cannot be contained by one department label. A materials question might involve manufacturing methods, and an AI question may involve a social or policy consequence. The relevant comparison is not the number of related labels. It is the place where the public record shows how the different elements are connected in present work.
Research outputs, open questions, research news, and researcher expertise all provide different ways to reach a narrower topic. Use them in sequence rather than as substitutes. A central research theme can identify a broad problem; a researcher profile may identify expertise; a project or output may show what has been studied; and a research environment page can describe shared support. Agreement among these pieces gives the connection more weight. If they diverge, retain the uncertainty. A difference between the theme and the local work may be more informative than a neat but unsupported match.
Use a Swansea evidence trail rather than a broad impression
Create a Swansea evidence trail with three steps. First, write the problem as a question that could be investigated, not just as a field name. Second, identify one research highlight, expertise area, school, centre, or researcher that appears closest. Third, state the link in terms of a method, material, health issue, social group, policy setting, data source, or technical system. If the connection relies only on a phrase such as impact or sustainability, it is not yet specific enough. The aim is to show why the local research setting deserves further attention.
Add a final note about what the public material does not settle. It may not show whether a current project is continuing, whether a collaboration is central to the work, or how a particular method is used. Swansea University offers useful routes through research highlights, integrity, governance, expertise, outputs, and collaboration. The most durable comparison uses those routes to build a narrow trail of evidence. It avoids turning a university-wide aspiration into a claim about every part of the research environment.
Institution record
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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