The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
91
Alumni outcomes
53
Admissions & earnings
54/280

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
19,585 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
3 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
14,204 / 28,497 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
78.9
B · Strength
79.2

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =262. On strength alone: 272. 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
13.1% (12.4%–13.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.1% (0.9%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
751
All papers (fractional count)
5,743
International co-authored
26.4%
Open access
28.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
30 (2.90 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=232range 138–396 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences321range 191–497 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=532range 374–723 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=141range 97–230 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=750range 540–962 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%bottom2008–2011: 477 of 6592020–2023: 211 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

211Research 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.