The Hardman Rankings

How it scores

Research
63
Alumni outcomes
88
Admissions & earnings
234/243

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
90.7% src
Average SAT
1,090 src
Yield (admits who enrol)
23% src
Median earnings 10 years after entry
$54,990 src
40-year return on investment (Georgetown CEW)
$1.84M src
Graduation rate (6 years)
49% src
Rhodes Scholars, 2021–26
0 src
Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
8 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
2 src
Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate headcount / total FTE, IPEDS)
16,758 / 19,166 src

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

Research Index

A · Quality
46.5
B · Strength
16.8

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 711. On strength alone: 1086. 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
8.6% (7.6%–9.7%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (0.8%–1.6%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
151
All papers (fractional count)
1,747
International co-authored
39.1%
Open access
53.6%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.48 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=735range 544–973 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering=718range 464–1012 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=839range 668–988 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2006–2009: 423 of 5712020–2023: 890 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

=890Research 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

Alumni laureates
1
Staff laureates
0

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Jack Kilby (Nobel Physics, 2000). 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.