Galala University has been placed in the 126–150 band of the Times Higher Education (THE) Arab University Rankings 2026, as published by THE in November 2025.
The THE Arab University Rankings 2026 are a regional table produced from the same underlying data used for the THE World University Rankings 2026. After limiting the dataset to universities in Arab countries, THE recalibrates the weightings to generate a region-specific performance ranking.
THE’s 2026 methodology evaluates institutions through 17 performance indicators grouped under five main areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry engagement, and international outlook. Teaching indicators include measures such as teaching reputation, student-to-staff ratio, doctoral provision, and institutional income. Research environment is assessed through research reputation, income, and productivity. Research quality is measured via strength, excellence, and influence, including citation impact. Industry engagement is evaluated through industry income and patents. International outlook considers the proportions of international students and staff and levels of international research co-authorship. THE notes that in the Arab 2026 calculation, the studying-abroad indicator is present but carries zero weight.
For this edition, THE combines self-reported institutional data submitted through its portal using each university’s most suitable reporting period ending in 2023, bibliometric and citation data from Elsevier’s Scopus covering publications from 2020 to 2024 with citations counted through 2025, and results from the THE Academic Reputation Survey. The survey was run between November 2024 and January 2025, and its results were merged with the 2024 survey to form a dataset exceeding 108,000 responses globally.
THE confirms that the Arab University Rankings 2026 follow the flagship world-ranking framework fully, and that Arab-specific indicators used in some earlier regional editions were removed for this cycle. Galala University’s placement in the 126–150 band reflects its standing within this regional evaluation of Arab universities under the 2026 performance framework.
