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University of Oslo

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 33–118 of 1,240 · score 66.9
Research Index =204

How it scores

Research
85
Alumni outcomes
95
Admissions & earnings
est.

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)
53 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Students (undergraduate / total)
27,400 / 27,400

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

Research Index

A · Quality
74.9
B · Strength
89.0

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 312. On strength alone: =144. 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
12.1% (11.6%–12.6%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (1.0%–1.3%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,197
All papers (fractional count)
9,871
International co-authored
66.8%
Open access
88.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
6 (0.22 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=210range 153–327 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=223range 158–348 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=176range 106–307 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=740range 595–927 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities86range 44–165 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%2006–2009: 183 of 5712020–2023: 204 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

=204Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
86ARWU 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
13
Staff laureates
6

Alumni: 10 Nobel, 2 Turing Award, 1 Fields Medal. Most recent: Edvard Moser (Nobel Medicine, 2014), May-Britt Moser (Nobel Medicine, 2014), Kristen Nygaard (Turing Award, 2001), Ole-Johan Dahl (Turing Award, 2001), Trygve Haavelmo (Nobel Economics, 1989), Tjalling Koopmans (Nobel Economics, 1975). 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.