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Colorado State University

United States of AmericaAmericas

#458

QS World University Rankings 2026

34

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#458

QS World University Rankings 2026

#442

QS World University Rankings 2025

34

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
25.2
QS 2026 rank
#508

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
30.1
QS 2026 rank
#473

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
73.1
QS 2026 rank
#209

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
22.8
QS 2026 rank
#672

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
22.7
QS 2026 rank
#679

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
9
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
14.7
QS 2026 rank
#801

International research network

QS 2026 score
82.5
QS 2026 rank
#303

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
32.3
QS 2026 rank
#524

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
75
QS 2026 rank
#236
University profile

About Colorado State University

A college structure supports research across living systems and technology

Colorado State University makes its colleges visible across agricultural sciences, business, engineering, health and human sciences, liberal arts, natural sciences, veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences, and natural resources. This is a useful first structure for a question that touches more than one discipline. Work on an environmental issue, for instance, may involve natural resources, agriculture, engineering, public health, or veterinary knowledge. The college list does not show where a particular project lives. It helps identify the academic terrain before a search moves to a department, centre, laboratory, researcher, or current research story.

The university presents research as work that moves from discovery toward practical solutions. Its central research pages point to clean energy, public health, climate-related questions, agriculture, and other public concerns. This can help frame an enquiry that has a clear real-world context. It should not be read as a universal description of every research group. A project about a disease, energy system, agricultural process, or environmental issue needs its own local evidence. The relevant unit may use a different mix of laboratory work, field observation, computation, community engagement, or industry collaboration than another group with related language.

Research examples show how broad themes turn into defined problems

Colorado State’s public material provides examples involving hurricane planning, oil and gas operations and methane reduction, medical imaging for cystic fibrosis, post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans, bird flu in cattle, microbes and forensic work, Alzheimer’s disease, and agricultural greenhouse gas questions. These examples are useful because each names a specific problem rather than a generic field. They also show that a broad university theme can have very different research objects. Health work may involve imaging or disease mechanisms, while climate-related work may involve emissions, weather, animals, or energy operations. Do not merge these paths simply because they share a public-impact label.

The research page also describes work with industry and a modern land-grant mission. That language can be useful context for a question that may need external partners or practical implementation. It still needs a specific check. Find the current research group or project that explains what is being measured, tested, modelled, designed, or evaluated. This is especially important when a research example is presented as a news story or a public outcome. The story can show one concrete direction, but the local unit explains whether that direction is central, continuing, or connected to the particular question you have in mind.

Use a Colorado State comparison to locate the real research object

Start a Colorado State evidence card with the object of study rather than the general field. It might be a renewable energy system, methane emission, animal health question, medical imaging problem, microbial process, natural resource, or community health issue. Then identify the college and the more specific unit that appear closest. Write one sentence about how the local work connects to the object. A good explanation names the evidence or method, not just a desired outcome. That makes it possible to compare settings that all seem relevant but actually investigate very different parts of a larger problem.

Add a boundary before drawing a conclusion. The public research page may confirm that Colorado State University has visible work in a topic, while the relevant laboratory, current project, or research method may still require a closer check. A college title is useful context, not proof of a complete fit. By moving from the college structure to a named research example and then to a local source, the comparison remains grounded. It becomes a record of a specific possible connection rather than an expansive statement about the whole university.

Institution record

Country
United States of America
Region
Americas
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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