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Carleton University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 467–1059 of 1,240 · score 35.1
Research Index =674

How it scores

Research
46
Alumni outcomes
42
Admissions & earnings
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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)
15 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
1 src
Students (undergraduate / total)
24,896 / 30,614

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

Research Index

A · Quality
46.3
B · Strength
49.7

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =713. On strength alone: 657. 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
9.5% (8.8%–10.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.0% (0.7%–1.2%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
321
All papers (fractional count)
3,378
International co-authored
54.4%
Open access
53.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.22 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=1026range 856–1206 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences420range 296–588 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=584range 423–741 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=933range 754–1158 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=438range 303–621 of 1,262

Position over time

2006–2009: 338 of 5712020–2023: 674 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

=674Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

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
0
Staff laureates
2

Alumni: none recorded. 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.