University of Connecticut
#534
QS World University Rankings 2026
30.7
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#534
QS World University Rankings 2026
#565
QS World University Rankings 2025
30.7
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
- 20.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #597
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 14.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 28.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #679
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 33.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #543
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 54.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #415
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 34.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #543
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 40.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #500
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 85.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #253
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 40.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #437
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 63.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #433
About University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut frames research through quantum work, facilities, and public problem solving
The University of Connecticut places quantum research prominently in its public account of discovery, including its role in the QuantumCT effort. Its wider research material also describes work on new materials, mental-health questions, ice and science, and public history. Together, these examples indicate the range of problems inside a large research environment. Quantum work can involve devices, materials, information, measurement, theory, and engineering systems. A mental-health question can involve communication, clinical practice, education, service design, or social context. Public history may involve archives, visual design, local records, and community interpretation.
The value of this variety is not that it makes every topic a good match. It shows why a reader should identify the object of inquiry before selecting a university route. A materials question may require specimens, fabrication details, instruments, and performance tests. A question about mental-health communication may need interviews, observation, messages, surveys, or programme records. A local-history question may need primary sources, maps, images, and interpretive evidence. UConn's central pages provide an entry into research discovery, while a closer record is needed to establish the actual unit, method, and setting for any specific topic.
UConn separates discovery, equipment, partnership, and translation into practical research routes
The public research map at UConn distinguishes research centres and institutes, facilities, undergraduate research, library resources, faculty expertise, research resources and equipment, technology commercialisation, and startup programmes. This separation is useful because each route serves a different purpose. A facility page may indicate where an experiment or technical process can be carried out. A faculty-expertise route can help locate people working on a defined topic. A library or open-commons route can help a reader find published or deposited material. Commercialisation and incubation routes can show a path from research activity toward practical use, but they do not describe every research question or method.
For example, a study involving a new material could need a laboratory setting, instruments, sample preparation, performance measures, and a publication or project record. A study of an online message may need a defined platform, text or interaction data, ethical safeguards, and an analytical approach. A quantum-systems question could require theory, hardware, measurements, control systems, or simulations. The route that matters is the one that explicitly identifies the object and evidence. A general centre list is a helpful map, but it cannot by itself demonstrate a particular research connection.
Start a UConn search with an observable object and an evidence trail
A focused University of Connecticut inquiry can start with one observable object: a quantum device, a material, a health-communication practice, an ice-related process, a historical record, an online message, or a community programme. Then decide what would count as relevant evidence. Depending on the question, that may include samples, instrument readings, code, models, documents, images, interviews, survey responses, archival records, or field observations. This step gives the research centres, facilities, expertise tools, and library routes a clear role. Rather than browsing every label, a reader can seek the local record that connects the chosen object to a real setting.
UConn's public pages establish a substantial research map and show examples of work across science, technology, health, humanities, and community questions. They do not confirm the current work of every unit, access to a particular facility, or suitability of a future project. A statement about a narrow fit should come from a project, researcher, laboratory, publication, or unit page that makes the relationship explicit. If the evidence stops at a broad theme, the result should remain a promising direction for more checking. This keeps the University of Connecticut profile useful without making it sound more certain than the public record allows.
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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