The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
98
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
90/280

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 (mainland China).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Lowest admitted gaokao rank, Zhejiang 2025
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Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
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Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
– / 31,040 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
94.8
B · Strength
89.3

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =57. On strength alone: =140. 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
16.0% (15.4%–16.7%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.6% (1.4%–1.8%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,235
All papers (fractional count)
7,709
International co-authored
35.5%
Open access
38.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
19 (1.14 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=764range 487–1047 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=30range 15–56 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=51range 31–115 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering87range 69–143 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities63range 28–118 of 1,262

Position over time

top 3%top 10%top 30%bottom2009–2012: 607 of 6952020–2023: 55 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

=55Research 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.