The Hardman Rankings

← World University Rankings 2026

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (EPE)

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 34–174 of 2,287 · score 65.9
Research Index =671

How it scores

Research
71
Alumni outcomes
98
Admissions & earnings
2/62

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
14.0% src
Admits with a bac mention très bien
85% src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
20 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
14 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
7,400 / 11,200 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
48.8
B · Strength
45.0

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =675. On strength alone: 718. 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
10.0% (9.3%–10.7%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.9% (0.7%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
286
All papers (fractional count)
2,852
International co-authored
63.0%
Open access
80.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
1 (0.06 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 sciences753range 621–838 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=459range 326–618 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=715range 571–849 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=455range 301–661 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2006–2009: 149 of 5712020–2023: 671 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

=671Research Index 2026
=43QS 2027
=75THE 2027
–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
6
Staff laureates
7

Alumni: 4 Nobel, 2 Fields Medal. Most recent: Hong Wang (Fields Medal, 2026), Michel Devoret (Nobel Physics, 2025), Jean Tirole (Nobel Economics, 2014), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Fields Medal, 1994), Maurice Allais (Nobel Economics, 1988), Antoine Henri Becquerel (Nobel Physics, 1903). 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.