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City St George's, University of London

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 189–620 of 1,240 · score 47.0
Research Index =209

How it scores

Research
83
Alumni outcomes
30
Admissions & earnings
15/53

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 (United Kingdom).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Offer rate (UK 18-year-olds, UCAS)
71.8% src
Offer holders who enrol
21% src
Median earnings 5 years after graduating (LEO)
£39,800 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
0 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Students (undergraduate / total)
19,470 / 27,230

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

Research Index

A · Quality
93.0
B · Strength
57.4

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =81. On strength alone: =556. 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
14.5% (13.5%–15.5%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.7% (1.4%–2.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
380
All papers (fractional count)
2,615
International co-authored
60.2%
Open access
87.5%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.25 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 sciences101range 61–150 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science=336range 184–605 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=924range 681–1195 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=92range 52–176 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2006–2009: 260 of 5712020–2023: 209 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

=209Research 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

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.