International Rankings
UFES is featured annually in the leading international university rankings. The table below shows UFES’s global and Latin American rankings in recent years (with its position among Brazilian universities shown in brackets):
Times Higher Education (THE)
THE World University Rankings
This ranking evaluates universities according to five pillars: teaching (30%), research (30%), citations (30%), industry income (2.5%) and international outlook (7.5%).
At the end of 2019, UFES joined the list of the world’s best universities according to the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, reaching the 1001+ position, and repeated the same achievement the following year, when it retained that same position.
THE Latin America
This ranking carries out a similar analysis to THE World, but considers only universities in Latin America.
THE Impact
THE Impact considers the university’s achievements in relation to the United Nations’ (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings
QS evaluates universities according to Academic Reputation (40%); Employer Reputation (10%); Faculty-Student Ratio (20%); Citations (20%) and International Faculty and Student Ratio (5%).
QS Latin America
The QS Latin America Rankings conduct this analysis considering only Latin American countries.
QS BRICS
The QS BRICS Rankings consider only the BRICS countries.
UFES results in recent years:
|
Ranking |
2019 |
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
– |
1001+ (13) | 1001+ (14) | 1201+ (18) | 1201-1500 (13) | 1201-1500 (12) | 1501+ (20) |
1501+ (27) |
|
|
91-100 (35) | 101-125 (45) | 69 (33) |
54 (30) |
49 (27) | 49 (30) | 48 (26) | 48 (26) |
|
|
– | 101-200 (3) | 101-200 (2) |
301-400 (5) |
401-600 (11) | 401-600 (9) | 401-600 (6) | – |
|
|
109 | 114 | 113 | 111 | 109 |
107 |
109 | 114 |
|
|
– | – |
52 (30) |
50 (29) | 45 (27) | 44 (26) | 42 (24) | 45 (27) |
|
|
1203 (28) | 1259 (33) | 1242 (31) | 1200 (30) | 1210 (30) | 1209 (27) | 1268 (28) |
1275 |
|
|
– |
– |
1095 (15) |
1092 (22) |
1056 |
1030 (22) |
1066 (22) |
951 (21) |
|
|
– | 1394 | 1396 | 1401 (36) | 1361 (33) | 1455 (29) | 1555 (29) | 1661 (30) |
|
|
– | 1069 (29) | 1024 (28) | 960 (28) |
937 (27) |
950 (27) | 982 (27) | – |
