The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
77
Alumni outcomes
75
Admissions & earnings
205/243

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 (United States).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Admit rate
86.8% src
Average SAT
1,105 src
Yield (admits who enrol)
30% src
Median earnings 10 years after entry
$57,131 src
40-year return on investment (Georgetown CEW)
$1.90M src
Graduation rate (6 years)
53% src
Rhodes Scholars, 2021–26
0 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
3 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
0 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate headcount / total FTE, IPEDS)
30,580 / 28,174 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
67.0
B · Strength
40.7

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =426. On strength alone: 774. 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
11.4% (10.5%–12.4%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.1% (0.8%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
258
All papers (fractional count)
2,258
International co-authored
42.0%
Open access
53.5%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.30 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=892range 718–1051 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science=183range 103–317 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=493range 315–732 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities460range 312–651 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%bottom2008–2011: 526 of 6592020–2023: 546 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

=546Research 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.