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Universidad Central de Venezuela - UCV

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)Americas

#731

QS World University Rankings 2026

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QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

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#731

QS World University Rankings 2026

#691

QS World University Rankings 2025

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QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

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Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
28.9
QS 2026 rank
#431

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
45.3
QS 2026 rank
#298

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
41.5
QS 2026 rank
#487

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
1.4
QS 2026 rank
#801

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
3.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
2
QS 2026 rank
#801

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
6.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

International research network

QS 2026 score
13.3
QS 2026 rank
#801

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
57.5
QS 2026 rank
#289

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
36.3
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Universidad Central de Venezuela - UCV

Universidad Central de Venezuela combines science, health, engineering, and the humanities

Universidad Central de Venezuela, commonly known as UCV, is a broad public university in Caracas with academic work across science, engineering, health, architecture, economics, law, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. Its structure includes faculties and schools that support biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computing, engineering, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary work, architecture, urban studies, economics, political science, communications, history, philosophy, languages, and education. A research question should be tied to the faculty and school that can supply its evidence.

Science and engineering projects may address materials, energy, water, computation, infrastructure, ecosystems, or industrial processes. Health faculties provide clinical, laboratory, pharmaceutical, dental, and public-health settings. Architecture and urbanism can study buildings, neighbourhoods, transport, planning, and public space. Economics, law, social science, and humanities work with institutions, policies, records, languages, communities, and cultural practices.

UCV research is connected to Venezuela's natural, urban, and social settings

A project on water, biodiversity, or environmental change should name the ecosystem, site, sample, climate record, or resource process. Engineering needs a device, structure, model, energy system, or material. Medical and biological research requires a population, specimen, treatment, service, or outcome. Urban work can use maps, transport data, housing, public services, or observations. Social and cultural research needs a language, archive, community, organisation, or public debate.

The university's breadth makes interdisciplinary work possible, but a proposal should not stop at a general national topic. A study of public health may combine medicine with sociology and policy. A Caracas urban project may join architecture, geography, transport, and economics. A computing project may support environmental monitoring or public administration. The named department and facility pages should show how the methods meet and which result comes first.

How to assess a Universidad Central de Venezuela route

Begin by naming the evidence. Natural science needs a sample, organism, instrument, or measurement. Engineering and architecture need a system, structure, material, site, or design. Computing needs code, data, an algorithm, or a user setting. Health research needs a clinical or biological outcome. Law, economics, politics, and social science need institutions, rules, markets, decisions, or communities. Humanities and arts need texts, archives, languages, practices, or audiences.

For UCV, put the school and faculty beside the question, then attach its approach, language, intended output, and one active route page. Say if Caracas or another Venezuelan setting supplies the evidence, serves as a comparison point, or is simply where the research team is located. Use a centre or institute to locate people and facilities, then name the responsible academic unit. List the clinic, laboratory, archive, dataset, field site, building, or community needed to judge whether the route suits your preparation. Link the setting to a concrete object such as a city map, health service, ecological site, public archive, organisation, or cultural collection. Add the first comparison or observation so the project does not remain a general statement about the country. Make clear what is measured locally and what is compared elsewhere. State who can access the setting and which record or sample will be collected there.

A practical UCV research question

A UCV project note should separate its local setting from its wider claim. Say whether Caracas, another Venezuelan location, or a comparative collection supplies the evidence. Identify the first record, sample, map, interview, or observation and state how it will answer the question. This gives a faculty or school a clear starting point and prevents a broad national theme from replacing a workable research design.

Institution record

Country
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Region
Americas
Status
Public
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
July 24, 2026

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