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Southeast University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 113–464 of 2,287 · score 52.4
Research Index =181

How it scores

Research
93
Alumni outcomes
43
Admissions & earnings
12/280

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
6,510 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)
17,277 / 43,651 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
74.2
B · Strength
97.5

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 319. On strength alone: =33. 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% (12.5%–13.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.0% (0.9%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
2,449
All papers (fractional count)
19,013
International co-authored
28.2%
Open access
36.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
67 (1.66 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=225range 160–352 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=199range 127–316 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science209range 117–312 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=172range 111–280 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=240range 141–372 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%2006–2009: 366 of 5712020–2023: 181 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

=181Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
89ARWU 2026

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.