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University of the Basque Country

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 266–1206 of 2,287 · score 42.6
Research Index =616

How it scores

Research
74
Alumni outcomes
66
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

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
18 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
42,026 / 44,921 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
44.9
B · Strength
68.7

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =727. On strength alone: 409. 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
9.5% (8.9%–10.2%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.9% (0.7%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
515
All papers (fractional count)
5,417
International co-authored
55.1%
Open access
74.3%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
7 (0.42 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=622range 473–778 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=673range 548–767 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science826range 643–968 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=484range 348–644 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities472range 306–649 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2006–2009: 412 of 5712020–2023: 616 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

=616Research 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.