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Queen's University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 97–328 of 2,287 · score 57.0
Research Index 450

How it scores

Research
81
Alumni outcomes
95
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

Alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)
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Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
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Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
28,647 / 35,030 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
59.2
B · Strength
70.9

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =530. On strength alone: =380. 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
10.2% (9.6%–10.8%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (1.0%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
544
All papers (fractional count)
5,323
International co-authored
53.1%
Open access
59.7%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
5 (0.36 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=236range 171–356 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=677range 525–790 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=438range 285–643 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering986range 787–1169 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=351range 232–532 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2006–2009: 198 of 5712020–2023: 450 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

450Research 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
2
Staff laureates
1

Alumni: 1 Turing Award, 1 Nobel. Most recent: David Card (Nobel Economics, 2021), Kenneth E. Iverson (Turing Award, 1979). 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.