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Harbin Engineering University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 204–591 of 1,240 · score 46.3
Research Index 343

How it scores

Research
74
Alumni outcomes
31
Admissions & earnings
39/227

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 1,240 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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Students (undergraduate / total)
16,400 / 29,422

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

Research Index

A · Quality
65.3
B · Strength
79.4

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =443. On strength alone: =269. 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
11.1% (10.4%–11.8%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.1% (0.9%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
754
All papers (fractional count)
6,802
International co-authored
20.4%
Open access
34.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
28 (2.32 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–fewer than 200 papers
Life & earth sciences=871range 769–951 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science377range 223–548 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=198range 142–337 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=835range 602–1053 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%bottom2009–2012: 630 of 6952020–2023: 343 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

343Research 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.