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National Taiwan University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 84–699 of 2,287 · score 53.4
Research Index =772

How it scores

Research
70
Alumni outcomes
91
Admissions & earnings
est.

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.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
22 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)
17,568 / 34,935 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
27.7
B · Strength
83.0

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 952. On strength alone: 223. 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
8.2% (7.8%–8.6%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.6% (0.5%–0.8%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
887
All papers (fractional count)
10,800
International co-authored
40.8%
Open access
58.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
10 (0.40 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 sciences664range 496–847 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=738range 589–819 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science796range 586–933 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=763range 582–957 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=703range 528–874 of 1,262

Position over time

2006–2009: 355 of 5712020–2023: 772 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

=772Research Index 2026
54QS 2027
–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

Alumni laureates
2
Staff laureates
1

Alumni: 1 Nobel, 1 Turing Award. Most recent: Andrew Yao (Turing Award, 2000), Yuan T. Lee (Nobel Chemistry, 1986). 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.