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Northwestern Polytechnical University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 78–301 of 1,240 · score 55.1
Research Index 41

How it scores

Research
97
Alumni outcomes
33
Admissions & earnings
17/227

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)
14,395 / 28,131

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

Research Index

A · Quality
93.0
B · Strength
97.2

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =81. On strength alone: =37. 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
14.8% (14.3%–15.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.6% (1.5%–1.8%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
2,378
All papers (fractional count)
16,054
International co-authored
24.1%
Open access
33.4%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
64 (2.06 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=155range 93–281 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=169range 99–306 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science100range 56–195 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=34range 22–58 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=319range 194–527 of 1,262

Position over time

top 3%top 10%top 30%bottom2006–2009: 524 of 5712020–2023: 41 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

41Research 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.