The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
96
Alumni outcomes
46
Admissions & earnings
27/280

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
9,150 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
2 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
19,422 / 41,755 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
85.4
B · Strength
98.2

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =176. On strength alone: =24. 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
14.0% (13.6%–14.4%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (1.1%–1.3%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
2,788
All papers (fractional count)
19,893
International co-authored
27.5%
Open access
31.1%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
50 (1.27 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=261range 178–381 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences148range 79–238 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=171range 89–282 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=88range 61–148 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=71range 43–143 of 1,262

Position over time

top 10%top 30%bottom2006–2009: 463 of 5712020–2023: 100 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

100Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
98ARWU 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

Alumni laureates
0
Staff laureates
1

Alumni: none recorded. Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Alumni laureates count toward the overall ranking per student (10 of 65 global weight points); staff laureates are shown for context only.