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Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 203–681 of 1,240 · score 45.1
Research Index =484

How it scores

Research
67
Alumni outcomes
25
Admissions & earnings
30/227

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)
19,899 / 31,734

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

Research Index

A · Quality
49.5
B · Strength
89.8

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =664. On strength alone: 134. 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
10.4% (9.9%–10.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.8% (0.6%–0.9%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,263
All papers (fractional count)
12,140
International co-authored
22.4%
Open access
33.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
49 (2.20 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=1272range 1020–1465 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=501range 352–678 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science477range 302–625 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=467range 294–618 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities256range 155–429 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%bottom2007–2010: 527 of 6082020–2023: 484 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

=484Research 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.