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About University of Galway
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QS Overall Rankings
The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
In June 2024, QS published their 21st edition of the QS World University Ranking Results 2025, with the largest ever number of universities partaking - a total of 1,503 institutions across 106 locations. University of Galway was ranked 273rd place in 2024 (up from 289th in 2023).
The results incorporate 17.5 million academic papers published between 2018 and 2022. They also reflect the expert opinions of over 150,000 academic faculty and over 99,000 employers who partake in both the academic and employer reputation survey. The QS introduced faculty area normalisation in 2015 to ensure that institutions specialising in Life Sciences and Natural Sciences were not unduly advantaged. See more about the QS Methodology used in the rankings here.
New in the 2023: For their 20th edition, QS significantly evolved their methodology, reflecting the shift towards sustainability and employability and research collaborations in higher education. Three new indicators were introduced and some of the original metrics were rebalanced as detailed below:
The chart below shows University of Galway's overall ranking performance in the QS World University Ranking since 2011 .
University of Galway's Ranking result 2011-2024
News
4th June 2024
QS World University Ranking 2025: University of Galway ranked 273rd in the world, out of ~1,500 global universities.
10th April 2024
5th December 2023
University of Galway is ranked 120 in the second year of the QS Sustainability Ranking, up from 161-170 in 2022.
27th September 2023
University of Galway retains it's global rank of 301-350 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024.
20th September 2023
27th June 2023
1st June 2023
22nd March 2023
12th October 2022
University of Galway has climbed in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2023, into the 301-350 category, up from the 351-400 category last year.
