How it scores
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
- 15,865 src
- Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
- 2 src
- Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
- 0 src
- Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
- not on the published top lists; estimated
- Students (undergraduate / total)
- 41,734 / 68,606 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)
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: =381. On strength alone: 30. 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
- 12.3% (11.9%–12.7%)
- Papers in the top 1% of their field
- 1.0% (0.9%–1.1%)
- Top-10% papers (fractional count)
- 2,545
- All papers (fractional count)
- 20,753
- International co-authored
- 20.0%
- Open access
- 45.2%
- Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
- 197 (5.28 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.
How other rankings place it
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
- 1
- Staff laureates
- 0
Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Liu Xiaobo (Nobel Peace, 2010). 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.