University of Florida
#212
QS World University Rankings 2026
54.6
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#212
QS World University Rankings 2026
#215
QS World University Rankings 2025
54.6
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
- 58.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #179
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 55.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #215
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 75.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #194
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 34.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #526
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 31.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #570
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 18.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #762
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 24.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 98.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #20
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 67.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #225
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 74.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #237
About University of Florida
A statewide research setting with many academic entry points
University of Florida presents a broad academic structure that includes certificates, undergraduate majors, graduate degrees, and a public emphasis on artificial intelligence across fields. Its central material also points to the UF Health network and UF/IFAS activity in every Florida county. For a prospective researcher, this shows that university activity can extend beyond the Gainesville campus and involve health, agriculture, technology, and community settings. It does not establish the right route for an individual question. Begin with the college, department, or programme that owns the subject, then use the wider institutional structure to understand any relevant research context.
The university's public research stories span areas such as semiconductors, diabetes, agriculture, mosquito-borne disease, hurricanes, and Parkinson's research. These examples can be useful for discovering the language used in active work. They are not a programme catalogue or a promise that every topic has the same opportunities. Follow a story to the research group, department, or expert associated with it. That will show whether the methods, research setting, and academic field are actually aligned with the work you want to develop.
Research impact pages can generate better questions
UF's impact material connects research with public, statewide, national, and global contexts. It also identifies work with scientific and technical themes that reach beyond one discipline. Use this as a way to sharpen your question. If a topic is connected to health, environment, food systems, engineering, or computing, ask what part of the university is doing the work and what kind of evidence it uses. The answer should come from a current local source, not from an institution-wide statement about impact.
The university's AI-related material is another example of a cross-cutting theme. A technology theme may appear in different colleges with different purposes and methods. One unit may focus on technical development, another on a field application, and another on social or organisational consequences. Map the part that is relevant to your question instead of assuming that a university-wide initiative defines every academic route. This distinction will make a research comparison more accurate.
Write a University of Florida comparison record
A useful University of Florida note contains the formal academic home, a current research group or project, and a short account of your own connection. The connection might be a prior study, a technical skill, a data method, laboratory experience, fieldwork, or a practical question from work. Keep the description narrow enough to reveal whether you understand the research setting. A broad sentence about health, technology, or public impact is only a starting point; a strong note identifies the problem and the work around it.
Review the latest material from the relevant programme and group before making a decision. Central UF sources can show the scope of the institution, while local pages clarify the details of an individual route. A careful shortlist should preserve that distinction and stay focused on current evidence that ties your question to an identifiable academic setting. The statewide health and agricultural context may help frame a topic, but the named college or research group must still show how that topic is being investigated.
Institution record
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- Americas
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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