University of The Witwatersrand
#291
QS World University Rankings 2026
46.4
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#291
QS World University Rankings 2026
#267
QS World University Rankings 2025
46.4
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
- 36.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #328
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 50.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #246
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 14
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 40.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #468
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 86.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #246
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 9.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 15.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 96.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #44
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 99.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #21
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 85.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #104
About University of The Witwatersrand
University of The Witwatersrand makes research and innovation easy to locate
University of The Witwatersrand places Research and Innovation alongside faculties and schools, teaching and learning, student information, library access, news, and events. Within the research area, the public navigation separates research activity, researchers, research support, innovation, postgraduate support, postdoctoral activity, and partnerships. This division gives a reader a more useful starting point than a single general description. Research news can reveal a current question. A researcher or local unit can identify the people and academic setting behind that question. Research support and innovation pages describe different institutional routes, rather than a single method or subject. When exploring University of The Witwatersrand, move from a visible theme to the closest faculty, school, centre, or group that gives the theme a specific research form. That sequence helps distinguish a current headline from a durable academic environment.
Wits research news points to questions without making them university-wide claims
The Research and Innovation area at University of The Witwatersrand includes public items on bioethics, research integrity, physical activity and health, and the role of peer support in mental-health applications. The site also presents the Wits Innovation Centre as part of the university's innovation ecosystem. These entries offer useful examples of questions that have recently been visible: ethical trade-offs, research conduct, health practice, and the design of digital support. They show selected Wits work, rather than a full account of research across every local unit. A news item can identify a problem, but a responsible comparison needs the page that names the relevant school, centre, project, or researcher. That closer page is where the reader can see whether the work uses policy analysis, clinical evidence, field research, data, design, laboratory practice, or a different approach.
Turn a Wits research theme into a small evidence trail
A University of The Witwatersrand research note can begin with one defined object: an ethical question in health, a behavioural pattern, a public-policy issue, a digital tool, a physical-activity problem, or another topic visible in a local unit. Find the faculty, school, centre, or research group that names that object. Next, record the type of material the group appears to work with. It may use participants, documents, datasets, devices, clinical material, experiments, community settings, or a combination. This step matters because a shared subject word does not prove a shared method. It also prevents an innovation page or a central research menu from carrying more meaning than it can support. The final comparison should describe a local setting, not simply say that Wits studies a broad theme.
University of The Witwatersrand also makes research integrity visible in its public research material. That is a useful institutional context, especially when considering how a research environment presents responsible practice. It is still separate from the substantive work of a particular group. Keep the two ideas apart in a profile: one note for the university-level research route and another for the local question and method. If a current project page is unavailable, leave the connection open and return to the nearest academic unit later. This produces a clearer, more honest overview of Wits research activity without turning current news into a promise about an individual research path.
Institution record
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
- Africa
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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