The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
87
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
87/280

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
34,970 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
0 src
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)
30,800 / 42,800 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
68.3
B · Strength
78.9

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =405. On strength alone: 276. 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% (11.6%–12.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.9% (0.8%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
729
All papers (fractional count)
5,945
International co-authored
36.8%
Open access
48.1%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
23 (1.63 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 sciences=276range 173–395 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=158range 78–284 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=579range 429–745 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=284range 164–454 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2013–2016: 400 of 8702020–2023: 310 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

=310Research 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.