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University of Queensland

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 126–474 of 2,287 · score 52.1
Research Index =68

How it scores

Research
97
Alumni outcomes
74
Admissions & earnings
18/38

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 (Australia).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Median graduate salary (QILT)
A$78,000 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
16 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
5 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
34,152 / 56,414 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
89.2
B · Strength
95.6

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 132. On strength alone: =58. 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
13.7% (13.3%–14.1%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.6% (1.4%–1.7%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,997
All papers (fractional count)
14,579
International co-authored
60.7%
Open access
62.6%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
24 (0.58 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=121range 84–173 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences63range 43–124 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=136range 94–253 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=41range 33–61 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=67range 38–126 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%2006–2009: 132 of 5712020–2023: 68 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

=68Research Index 2026
=40QS 2027
=73THE 2027
73ARWU 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
1
Staff laureates
2

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Peter C. Doherty (Nobel Medicine, 1996). 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.