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Florida International University

United States of AmericaAmericas

#582

QS World University Rankings 2026

28.8

QS 2026 overall score

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Ranking data

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#582

QS World University Rankings 2026

#574

QS World University Rankings 2025

28.8

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
22.7
QS 2026 rank
#551

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
38.3
QS 2026 rank
#363

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
18.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
17.5
QS 2026 rank
#759

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
27.7
QS 2026 rank
#617

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
22.6
QS 2026 rank
#692

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
28.7
QS 2026 rank
#630

International research network

QS 2026 score
84.7
QS 2026 rank
#260

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
28
QS 2026 rank
#595

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
79
QS 2026 rank
#187
University profile

About Florida International University

Florida International research stories separate ocean systems, extreme weather, cardiovascular care, and brain health

Florida International University's research page presents several public examples that belong to very different research settings: the Aquarius Reef Base, the Wall of Wind hurricane simulator, cardiovascular research, Alzheimer's research, and cancer work. These should not be reduced to one broad claim about science or innovation. An ocean question can involve reefs, water conditions, autonomous monitoring, coral systems, or simulated spaceflight training. A hurricane-resilience question may depend on wind, structures, materials, sensors, infrastructure, and extreme-weather conditions. A cardiovascular question can involve acoustic signals, arteries, valves, procedures, robotics, public health, nursing, or clinical practice. The object determines the appropriate evidence trail.

The FIU page describes Aquarius as an underwater research laboratory used for ocean work, AI and autonomous monitoring, coral-nursery activity, and simulated spaceflight training. It describes the Wall of Wind as a fan-based hurricane simulator used to inform environmental resilience and infrastructure research. These examples provide a reader with concrete settings, yet a facility description does not identify every project or method carried out there. A reef question may need species information, water measurements, images, environmental data, or monitoring records. A wind question may require a structure, test configuration, materials, sensor readings, and a defined outcome. A closer project or output source is needed before a narrow research connection is stated.

Heart, Alzheimer's, and childhood-cancer research at FIU require different clinical and technical records

FIU's public research material also describes acoustic heart analysis, artery and valve treatments, robots in operating rooms, neuroinflammation biomarkers, environmental conditions in the brain, and functional precision medicine for childhood cancers. These examples give a useful reminder that health research is not one evidence category. An acoustic-heart question may require sound signals, instrumentation, physiology, signal processing, and clinical interpretation. A cardiovascular robotics question may require devices, procedures, imaging, safety, workflow, and human factors. An Alzheimer's question can involve biomarkers, brain environments, detection methods, and a defined clinical context. A cancer-treatment question may depend on tumour characteristics, laboratory findings, patient information, and clinical decision processes.

The research page identifies a Center for Innovation in Cardiovascular Health with engineering, public health, and nursing connections. That institutional setting can orient a reader who is interested in a question spanning technology and care. It does not make every health issue a fit or settle the exact method used by a team. The safest sequence is to define the health object, specify the intended evidence, then find an official local record that names the same question. If the available material is only a public overview, it can still provide a strong direction for further checking without being used as proof of a specific ongoing study.

Frame an FIU search around the system, setting, and evidence needed for one research problem

A careful Florida International University search starts with a short research statement. For an ocean problem, identify the reef, species, habitat, monitoring system, or environmental condition. For an extreme-weather problem, name the structure, material, wind condition, measurement, or resilience outcome. For a health question, name the biological signal, device, service, procedure, clinical setting, or patient experience. Then list the data, samples, images, sensor traces, laboratory results, records, interviews, or tests needed to answer it. This prevents an ocean, hurricane, heart, brain, or cancer label from being treated as a complete description of the research work.

FIU's public sources make research facilities and health, ocean, and resilience examples visible. The public overview cannot establish whether a particular team is now studying a proposed question, whether a facility has the relevant access or equipment, or whether a public story includes the full protocol or data. A reliable profile should rest on the closest official source that connects the chosen object to a stated activity and context. Where that detail is not public, a broad area or facility remains a useful next lead. This evidence-first approach makes FIU's research map practical without turning a general public account into an unsupported match.

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

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