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Kuwait University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 859–1202 of 1,240 · score 25.8
Research Index =1165

How it scores

Research
9
Alumni outcomes
19
Admissions & earnings
–

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, so it is placed on the global measures only.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
9 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
2 src
Students (undergraduate / total)
42,697 / 42,697

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

Research Index

A · Quality
17.0
B · Strength
6.1

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 1093. On strength alone: =1225. 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
6.6% (5.7%–7.5%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.6% (0.3%–0.8%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
106
All papers (fractional count)
1,600
International co-authored
60.2%
Open access
65.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.51 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=1170range 976–1346 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science=1148range 962–1260 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=1414range 1200–1563 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=1146range 1028–1211 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2018–2021: 971 of 1,1742020–2023: 1165 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

=1165Research 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.