Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

How it scores

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.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Average graduate salary (UGC survey as reported by The Standard; not scored)

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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)

12,216 / 21,985

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

Research Index

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =31. On strength alone: 413. 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

17.7% (16.9%–18.4%)

Papers in the top 1% of their field

1.8% (1.6%–2.1%)

Top-10% papers (fractional count)

510

All papers (fractional count)

2,882

International co-authored

37.6%

Open access

44.3%

Papers from 2020–23 since retracted

11 (0.71 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

Position over time

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.