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Zhejiang University of Science and Technology

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 636–1882 of 2,287 · score 32.0
Research Index =871

How it scores

Research
63
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
est.

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.

Its in-country figure is excluded (see the note below), so it is placed on the global measures only.

Note: Its Zhejiang gaokao cutoff is excluded (home-province quota).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Lowest admitted gaokao rank, Zhejiang 2025
89,949 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)
3,000 / 4,000 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

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

Research Index

A · Quality
46.4
B · Strength
18.3

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 712. On strength alone: =1066. 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
9.9% (8.8%–11.0%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.8% (0.6%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
157
All papers (fractional count)
1,583
International co-authored
27.5%
Open access
42.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
8 (1.88 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–fewer than 200 papers
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science=480range 328–684 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=989range 764–1187 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

Not enough periods to show a trend.

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

=871Research 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.