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Ajou University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 496–1590 of 2,287 · score 36.0
Research Index =801

How it scores

Research
65
Alumni outcomes
67
Admissions & earnings
est.

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
6 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
9,705 / 13,986 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
36.1
B · Strength
42.9

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =850. On strength alone: =745. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
9.3% (8.5%–10.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.6% (0.4%–0.9%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
272
All papers (fractional count)
2,922
International co-authored
25.5%
Open access
63.1%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
7 (1.05 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=655range 493–831 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science=769range 545–933 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=895range 693–1111 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2007–2010: 581 of 6082020–2023: 801 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

=801Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.