UFSC ranks 8th in Brazil in QS World University Rankings
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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) has been ranked as the eighth best university in Brazil and the 23rd in Latin America, according to the QS World University Rankings: Latin America & The Caribbean 2026, released on Wednesday, 1 October. Among Brazilian federal universities, UFSC holds 4th place.
The evaluation uses a 1-100 scale, and UFSC achieved a score of 76.6 – the same as in 2024 – placing it among the top 5% universities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The ranking is prepared by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British consultancy specializing in higher education, and evaluated 492 universities. The results are based on eight indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-student ratio, staff with PhD, international research network, citations per paper, papers per faculty, and web impact.
In this edition, UFSC stood out in web impact (99.6), staff with PhD (99.3), papers per faculty (98.7), and international research network (98.7) – all of which improved compared to last year.
Translated by SINTER/UFSC.
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