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Universidad de Costa Rica leads the 32 Public universities in Costa Rica at #497 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Next come Universidad Nacional (#2 in Costa Rica) and Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (#3 in Costa Rica).
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Only one university here holds a QS World position — Universidad de Costa Rica at #497 — so it heads the list. The rest are ordered by research impact. Universidad de Costa Rica has the largest research record in this group, with 765,770 citations and an h-index of 256. 4 universities have neither a QS position nor a research record yet and appear at the end, marked "Not yet ranked".
The split is 32 public to 0 private institutions. The oldest is Universidad de San José, founded in 1992. Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional is the largest, with 12,000 students.
Universidad de Costa Rica (QS World #497), Universidad Nacional (#2 in Costa Rica) and Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (#3 in Costa Rica) lead this list. QS World positions come first; the rest are ranked by research impact.
32 public and 0 private universities are on this list.
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