THE Ranking

Overview of THE Rankings

Overview of Times Higher Ranking (THE) Rankings

The Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking assess over 1500 institutions worldwide in a portfolio of comparative university rankings, assessing universities across a range of metrics including a university’s teaching, research, knowledge transfer, internationalisation and sustainability activities.

University of Galway Results

1. THE World University Rankings

The THE World University Rankings is one of the leading university ranking systems, ranking over 2000 universities across 115 countries, with an emphasis on the research mission. It assesses research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching (the learning environment); research environment (volume, income and reputation); research quality (the outputs of research); industry (knowledge transfer) and international outlook (staff, students and research). Further information on THE WUR methodology can be found here.

University of Galway was ranked at 351-400 by THE World University Rankings in the 2026 edition (published 2025).

University of Galway’s performance in the THE World University Rankings over 10 years is below;

A more detailed breakdown of results can be found on our Intranet here

2. THE Subject Rankings

The overall THE World University Ranking is accompanied by 11 subject-specific rankings known as the THE Subject Rankings each year.

The subject ranking is based on data submitted in the World Rankings mapped across eleven subject areas as outlined by THE, details on methodology available here. 

University of Galway’s rank in the 11 subjects in 2024 were as follows:

See the full Subject Ranking results published in 2024 here.

3. THE University Impact Rankings

Launched in 2019, the THE University Impact Rankings were established to measure a university's progress and impact on the 17 United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

These Impact rankings evaluate 2,526 universities from 125 countries that demonstrate excellence in contributing to the global sustainable development, across their research, teaching and activities

The full methodology and 2025 results are detailed here. 

University of Galway has performed strongly in this ranking since its inception and in 2025 we obtained an overall Impact rank of 64th in the world, no 1 in Ireland.

Our rank in the 12 specific SDGs we submit for (we submitted for SDG 6 for the first time in 2025) is as follows:

More details on University of Galway's results are available on our intranet here.