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Aarhus University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 138–622 of 1,240 · score 47.4
Research Index =263

How it scores

Research
81
Alumni outcomes
61
Admissions & earnings
est.

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 1,240 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
21 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
5 src
Students (undergraduate / total)
18,769 / 32,780

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
69.5
B · Strength
88.9

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =387. On strength alone: 146. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
11.8% (11.3%–12.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.1% (0.9%–1.2%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,192
All papers (fractional count)
10,138
International co-authored
68.3%
Open access
72.3%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
14 (0.53 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=290range 207–431 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences144range 91–229 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science216range 135–344 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering581range 430–753 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities187range 111–299 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2006–2009: 138 of 5712020–2023: 263 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

=263Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
=97THE 2027
81ARWU 2026

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

Alumni laureates
1
Staff laureates
4

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Jens Christian Skou (Nobel Chemistry, 1997). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Alumni laureates count toward the overall ranking per student (10 of 65 global weight points); staff laureates are shown for context only.