The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
94
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
99/280

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)
– / 24,765 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
85.6
B · Strength
85.9

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =171. On strength alone: 185. 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
14.7% (14.0%–15.4%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.1% (1.0%–1.3%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,008
All papers (fractional count)
6,862
International co-authored
32.0%
Open access
55.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
32 (2.46 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=195range 142–322 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=37range 19–81 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science834range 607–1052 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=373range 241–553 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=198range 95–360 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%bottom2007–2010: 537 of 6082020–2023: 135 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

=135Research 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.