The Hardman Rankings

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Case Western Reserve University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 44–199 of 2,287 · score 65.1
Research Index =218

How it scores

Research
91
Alumni outcomes
97
Admissions & earnings
48/243

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 (United States).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Admit rate
36.5% src
Average SAT
1,513 src
Yield (admits who enrol)
14% src
Median earnings 10 years after entry
$87,989 src
40-year return on investment (Georgetown CEW)
$2.77M src
Average net price per year
$41,190 src
Graduation rate (6 years)
87% src
Rhodes Scholars, 2021–26
0 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
14 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
2 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate headcount / total FTE, IPEDS)
6,437 / 11,517 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
71.9
B · Strength
93.2

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =344. On strength alone: 90. 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
11.4% (11.0%–11.8%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.3% (1.2%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,591
All papers (fractional count)
13,983
International co-authored
36.4%
Open access
63.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
6 (0.17 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 sciences151range 112–239 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science536range 383–744 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=608range 465–779 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=525range 371–688 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%2006–2009: 71 of 5712020–2023: 218 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

=218Research 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

Alumni laureates
9
Staff laureates
6

Alumni: 8 Nobel, 1 Turing Award. Most recent: Richard Thaler (Nobel Economics, 2017), Edward C. Prescott (Nobel Economics, 2004), Paul Lauterbur (Nobel Medicine, 2003), Ferid Murad (Nobel Medicine, 1998), Alfred G. Gilman (Nobel Medicine, 1994), Paul Berg (Nobel Chemistry, 1980). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Alumni laureates count toward the overall ranking per student (10 of 65 global weight points); staff laureates are shown for context only.