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Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 153–557 of 2,287 · score 49.9
Research Index =132

How it scores

Research
94
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
64/280

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
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Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
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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)
– / 28,964 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
83.1
B · Strength
91.3

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =207. On strength alone: =114. 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
15.6% (15.0%–16.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.0% (0.8%–1.2%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
1,416
All papers (fractional count)
9,081
International co-authored
27.0%
Open access
43.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
51 (3.24 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 sciences380range 251–585 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences40range 17–98 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science305range 182–527 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=172range 109–312 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=232range 124–374 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%bottom2009–2012: 655 of 6952020–2023: 132 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

=132Research 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.