The Hardman Rankings

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 268–843 of 2,287 · score 44.3
Research Index =535

How it scores

Research
77
Alumni outcomes
63
Admissions & earnings
7/62

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 (France).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Parcoursup access rate
36.5% src
Admits with a bac mention très bien
12% src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
5 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
18,573 / 43,970 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
52.4
B · Strength
70.2

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =613. On strength alone: =389. 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
10.3% (9.8%–10.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.9% (0.8%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
533
All papers (fractional count)
5,156
International co-authored
58.6%
Open access
79.5%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.07 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=197range 160–297 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=476range 368–592 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=835range 685–958 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=862range 698–1023 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=917range 747–1044 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2006–2009: 216 of 5712020–2023: 535 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

=535Research 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
1
Staff laureates
2

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Victor Grignard (Nobel Chemistry, 1912). 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.