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Northwest Normal University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 843–1892 of 2,287 · score 30.6
Research Index =878

How it scores

Research
61
Alumni outcomes
43
Admissions & earnings
=241/280

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
145,272 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
1 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
– / 35,900 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
30.3
B · Strength
42.3

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =925. On strength alone: =753. 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% (7.4%–9.0%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.7% (0.5%–1.0%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
270
All papers (fractional count)
3,287
International co-authored
9.0%
Open access
36.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
22 (4.20 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–fewer than 200 papers
Life & earth sciences=415range 278–605 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=967range 750–1100 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering818range 608–1053 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities894range 672–1062 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2016–2019: 837 of 1,0102020–2023: 878 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

=878Research 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.