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Qingdao Agricultural University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 379–1259 of 2,287 · score 40.0
Research Index =387

How it scores

Research
84
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
=260/280

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
155,073 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
0 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
33,600 / 35,000 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
80.5
B · Strength
45.2

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =239. On strength alone: =715. 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
12.9% (11.8%–14.2%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (0.9%–1.7%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
286
All papers (fractional count)
2,219
International co-authored
18.1%
Open access
49.0%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
7 (1.61 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=443range 310–640 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=203range 122–349 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering262range 168–454 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

top 30%2018–2021: 625 of 1,1742020–2023: 387 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

=387Research 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.