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ETH Zürich

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#59
World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 32–138 of 2,287 · score 68.3
Research Index =10

How it scores

Research
100
Alumni outcomes
96
Admissions & earnings
est.

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 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)
10 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
11,520 / 26,942 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
99.1
B · Strength
95.8

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =11. On strength alone: 56. 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
18.4% (17.8%–19.0%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
2.4% (2.2%–2.6%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
2,024
All papers (fractional count)
10,983
International co-authored
69.8%
Open access
82.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
11 (0.37 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=41range 22–62 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=5range 2–13 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=5range 5–14 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering15range 13–25 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=18range 7–25 of 1,262

Position over time

top 1%top 3%2006–2009: 23 of 5712020–2023: 10 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

=10Research Index 2026
=8QS 2027
12THE 2027
19ARWU 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
15
Staff laureates
20

Alumni: 14 Nobel, 1 Turing Award. Most recent: Richard Ernst (Nobel Chemistry, 1991), Georg Bednorz (Nobel Physics, 1987), Karl Alexander Müller (Nobel Physics, 1987), Heinrich Rohrer (Nobel Physics, 1986), Niklaus Wirth (Turing Award, 1984), Werner Arber (Nobel Medicine, 1978). 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.