The Hardman Rankings

Not ranked in the World University Rankings

Its alumni counts include graduates of affiliated colleges or other programmes, but the only student count we found covers part of the institution, so per-student results would be overstated. It is listed but not ranked overall. Its research is ranked in the Research Index.

Research Index

A · Quality
33.6
B · Strength
34.5

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 880. On strength alone: 855. 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
8.1% (7.3%–8.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.9% (0.6%–1.2%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
224
All papers (fractional count)
2,772
International co-authored
31.6%
Open access
35.9%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
5 (0.83 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=611range 437–821 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=573range 412–738 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=851range 630–1071 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=1051range 831–1230 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=1197range 1081–1242 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2011–2014: 670 of 7922020–2023: 876 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

=876Research 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.