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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 111–699 of 1,240 · score 49.1
Research Index 229

How it scores

Research
81
Alumni outcomes
36
Admissions & earnings
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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. 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)
17 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
5 src
Students (undergraduate / total)
39,593 / 39,593

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

Research Index

A · Quality
78.4
B · Strength
75.6

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =268. On strength alone: 319. 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
12.8% (12.0%–13.5%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (1.0%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
647
All papers (fractional count)
5,070
International co-authored
37.6%
Open access
72.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
4 (0.30 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=92range 65–144 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=612range 433–783 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=1115range 923–1234 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering–fewer than 200 papers
Social sciences & humanities=473range 330–643 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%bottom2006–2009: 418 of 5712020–2023: 229 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

229Research 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.