University of Hull Rankings 2026: Global, National & Subject-wise Rankings

University of Hull Overall Rankings 2026

Hull is currently ranked by every major global body, with its sharpest world position on the Collegedunia Study Abroad list and its weakest on ARWU, where its research-heavy methodology pushes Hull into the 801-900 band.

The spread between Hull’s Collegedunia rank of #404 and its ARWU band of 801-900 stretches across roughly 400 positions, which reflects how each body weights teaching reputation, research citations, and Indian-applicant relevance differently. Hull’s QS rank of #=575 sits within one band of its U.S. News position at #721, signalling that the reputation-led and citation-led bodies agree more closely than the gap with Collegedunia first suggests.

University of Hull Rankings: Bottom Line for Indian Students

For Indian applicants, the rank that matters most depends on the subject: Hull’s Nursing, Sustainability, and Business positions all sit several hundred places above its overall world rank, while a comparison with IIT Bombay shows where Hull stands against India’s top STEM institute.

University of Hull QS World University Rankings 2027

University of Hull is ranked #=575 in QS World University Rankings 2027, out of 1,504 universities, marking a slip of 49 positions versus its 2026 rank of #=526. The slide reverses three editions of stable mid-500s positioning and is Hull’s lowest QS rank in the last five editions.

QS scores universities mainly on academic reputation, employer opinion, faculty-to-student ratio, and research citations, with international student share also counted. The year-by-year movement on Hull’s headline QS rank reads as follows.

Across the last five editions, Hull’s average QS world rank works out to roughly #540, with the 2023 to 2024 jump of around 130 positions standing out as the single largest improvement on its QS record. The 2027 slip of 49 places means Indian applicants comparing Hull against UK peers should expect the QS world rank to be Hull’s softer signal, not its lead one.

Key insight: Hull’s QS rank has moved within a roughly 60-position corridor across three consecutive editions, so the 2027 slip to #=575 is a single-year movement and not the start of a multi-year decline that Indian applicants should treat as a structural drop.

Collegedunia Study Abroad Rankings of University of Hull

Hull’s Collegedunia Study Abroad rank of #404 globally and #55 in the United Kingdom places it in the middle band of UK universities tracked by Collegedunia, with subject ranks that sit several positions above its overall rank in Engineering and Health Care.

Hull’s Engineering rank of #46 in the UK sits 9 positions above its overall UK rank of #55, and its Health Care UK rank of #53 sits 2 positions above the overall, signalling that Indian applicants targeting these two streams find Hull stronger than the overall UK rank alone implies. Within the global Engineering pool, Hull at #260 of 370 falls in the top 70%, while in the global Medicine pool it sits at #267 of 356, in the top 75%.

What it signals: The Collegedunia rank of #404 globally sits roughly 170 positions above Hull’s QS world rank, signalling that the India-weighted factors Collegedunia tracks (tuition, application access, post-study work, intake size) lift Hull more than the pure-research lens does, so the brand value Indian families see locally is closer to mid-400s than to mid-500s.

University of Hull Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings

University of Hull is ranked in the 501-600 band of THE World University Rankings 2026, slipping one band below its 401-500 placement of the previous two editions. THE, which ranks universities on teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook and industry income, has moved Hull’s band only once in the last three editions.

The single band slip from 401-500 to 501-600 between 2025 and 2026 is Hull’s first downward band move on THE in the last three editions, and pushes Hull around 100 ranks lower than its QS world position of #=526 (2026). The cross-body gap means Hull scores better on QS, where reputation and employer surveys carry significant weight, than on THE, where research output and citation counts pull harder.

Trend signal: Hull held the 401-500 THE band for two consecutive editions before slipping in 2026, so the band move is a single-year event, not a multi-edition slide, and Indian applicants choosing Hull for taught Masters in 2026 still hold a degree from a recently top-500 THE institution.

University of Hull ARWU (Shanghai) Rankings

University of Hull is placed in the 801-900 band of the ARWU (Shanghai) Academic Ranking of World Universities 2025, a single-band drop from its 701-800 position in each of the three prior editions. ARWU ranks universities mainly on research output and citations, including Nobel and Fields counts, which weighs against teaching-led UK universities like Hull.

Hull spent three consecutive editions in the 701-800 band before reverting to 801-900 in 2025, which restores the same band Hull held in 2021 and signals that the 2022 to 2024 lift was not a permanent step up. The 2025 ARWU band sits two bands below Hull’s QS world rank of #=575, with both signals lining up with each other to suggest research-driven recognition is Hull’s softer area, not its lead one.

India-relevance: For Indian applicants choosing Hull for a research-heavy PhD, the 801-900 ARWU band is worth weighing against teaching-led signals like Hull’s gold-rated TEF status, so research candidates should treat ARWU as one of several factors rather than the single deciding rank.

University of Hull Other Global Rankings

Hull also appears on the U.S. News Best Global Universities list, which is the body that tracks Hull’s research reputation among American academics. Only the current edition is fully verified for Hull on the U.S. News list.

Hull’s U.S. News position at #721 places it in the top 28% of the 2,604 global universities ranked, which is meaningfully ahead of its rank-of-pool placement on ARWU 2025, where Hull sits in the 801-900 band of roughly 1,000 ranked. The agreement between U.S. News and QS, which sits at #=575, is closer than the agreement between either of these and ARWU.

University of Hull Subject Rankings

Hull’s strongest subjects sit in Nursing, Sustainability, and Business and Economics, with Sustainability the single best discipline globally on QS. The subject-level signals matter more for Indian applicants than Hull’s overall world rank because Indian students typically choose Hull by program, not by global rank.

University of Hull QS Subject Rankings 2026

Hull’s QS subject ranks vary widely, with Sustainability lifting nearest the global top-200 and Business sitting closer to the world rank.

The gap between Hull’s Sustainability rank of #=210 and its QS world rank of #=575 is around 365 positions, which is the largest subject-vs-overall lift on Hull’s profile and the single number Indian applicants targeting climate, environmental science, or development programs should weight most heavily.

University of Hull THE Subject Rankings 2026

Hull is ranked across nine subject areas on THE Subject Rankings 2026, with Business and Economics and Physical Sciences both placed one band above Hull’s overall world rank.

Six of Hull’s nine THE subject areas sit at 401-500 or stronger, which is one band above the overall 501-600 world rank, signalling that Hull’s subject-level THE position is firmer than its headline THE band. Indian applicants for taught Masters in Business, Engineering, or Physical Sciences are choosing a degree where the subject body of THE ranks Hull more highly than the headline number first suggests.

University of Hull ARWU Subject Rankings (GRAS)

Hull’s ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects places Nursing inside the global top-200, the single highest position any body gives Hull on a subject list outside of the THE Impact Rankings.

ARWU places Hull’s Nursing in the 151-200 band, which is roughly 600 positions above Hull’s overall ARWU 801-900 band and aligns with the QS Nursing rank of #151-180, so two independent bodies agree Nursing is Hull’s globally strongest discipline.

University of Hull Regional Rankings

Hull is ranked on both the QS Europe University Rankings and the THE Impact Rankings, with its THE Impact positions the single most distinctive set of ranks on its entire profile.

University of Hull QS Europe University Rankings

Hull is placed at #84 in QS Europe University Rankings for Northern Europe (2025 edition), a tighter regional cut than the all-Europe table. The Northern Europe slice covers UK, Ireland, and the Nordic countries, so Hull’s #84 is the cleanest indicator of where it ranks among the universities Indian students most often shortlist alongside UK options.

University of Hull THE Impact Rankings 2025

The THE Impact Rankings score universities on their work toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and this is the single body where Hull holds top-50 global positions.

Three of Hull’s THE Impact SDG ranks sit inside the global top 100, with Partnership for the Goals at #=29 standing several hundred positions above any other rank on Hull’s profile. For Indian applicants targeting careers in development, policy, or international NGO work, these top-50 SDG positions carry sharper signalling weight than Hull’s overall 501-600 THE world band.

Key insight: The gap between Hull’s THE Impact Partnership for the Goals at #=29 and its THE World band of 501-600 is the single biggest cross-table gap on Hull’s profile, so an Indian applicant whose target is sustainability or international development is choosing a top-50 global department, not a mid-500s research university.

University of Hull Rankings: Indian Student Outlook

For Indian students, Hull’s value reads off its subject ranks, its sustainability positions, and its Collegedunia rank far more than its QS or THE world position. The five programs Indian students most often choose at Hull each align with one of these stronger subject signals.

The programs Indian students most commonly pick at Hull are:

• MSc Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: Sits inside Hull’s Engineering and Physical Sciences faculties, where THE 2026 ranks Hull at 401-500 (Engineering) and 301-400 (Physical Sciences)
• MSc Business Management: Aligned with THE Business and Economics 2026 band of 301-400 and the QS Online MBA 2026 debut at #75
• LLM International Law: Sits next to Hull’s THE Impact SDG 16 position of #49 for Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• BSc Accounting: A core undergraduate degree under Hull University Business School, which is the same school behind the QS Online MBA #75 debut
• BSc Computer Science: Falls in Hull’s Engineering faculty area, ranked 401-500 on THE 2026