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The University of the West Indies

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 555–1799 of 2,287 · score 32.4
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How it scores

Research
5
Alumni outcomes
90
Admissions & earnings
–

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, so it is placed on the global measures only.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

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

Research Index

A · Quality
10.4
B · Strength
2.8

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =1173. On strength alone: =1268. 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
4.8% (4.0%–5.6%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.6% (0.3%–0.9%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
78
All papers (fractional count)
1,629
International co-authored
64.6%
Open access
62.3%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
0 (0.00 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=1355range 1184–1502 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences811range 655–958 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering–fewer than 200 papers
Social sciences & humanities=1189range 1104–1227 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2018–2021: 1094 of 1,1742020–2023: 1234 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

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–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
1
Staff laureates
0

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Derek Walcott (Nobel Literature, 1992). 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.