China: best universities 2024

This statistic provides a ranking of the leading universities in China as of 2024, as ranked by Times Higher Education. That year, Tsinghua University ranked highest in China with an overall score of 92.8.

Leading universities in China as ranked by Times Higher Education in 2024

Characteristic	Times Higher Education score
Tsinghua University	92.8
Peking University	92.6
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	82.2
Fudan University	81
Zhejiang University	80.3
University of Science and Technology of China	79.3
Nanjing University	76
Sichuan University	68.7
Harbin Institute of Technology	68.2
Huazhong University of Science and Technology	68
Tongji University	67.5
Wuhan University	66.5
Beijing Normal University	65.4
Tianjin University	65.4
Xi'an Jiaotong University	63.8
Sun Yat-sen University	62.3
South China University of Technology	61.9
Southern University of Science and Technology	61.7
Beijing Institute of Technology	61.5
Southeast University	61.4
Beihang University	61.1
Northwestern Polytechnical University	60.4
Nankai University	59.7
East China Normal University	58.7
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	57.9

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

China

Survey time period

2024

Supplementary notes

The number one ranked university in the world (not seen in this list) has a score of 100 and the scores of all other institutions around the world are expressed as a percentage of the top rating university's score. In this list only Chinese universities are depicted.
To calculate the rankings the following criteria were considered:
research quality (30%);
research environment (28%) – volume, income and reputation;
teaching (24.5%) – the learning environment;
industry (10%) – income and patents;
international outlook (7.5%) – staff, students and research.

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