Universidad Central de Venezuela - UCV
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QS World University Rankings 2026
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QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
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QS World University Rankings 2026
#691
QS World University Rankings 2025
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QS 2026 overall score
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
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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