China: best universities 2022

This statistic provides a ranking of the leading universities in China as of 2022, as ranked by Times Higher Education. That year, Tsinghua University ranked highest in China with an overall score of 87.6.

Leading universities in China as ranked by Times Higher Education in 2022

Characteristic	Times Higher Education score
Tsinghua University	87.6
Peking University	87.4
Fudan University	71.5
Zhejiang University	69.6
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	68.1
University of Science and Technology of China	65.4
Nanjing University	65.3
Southern University of Science and Technology	62.6
Wuhan University	61
Huazhong University of Science and Technology	60.1
Sun Yat-sen University	52.5
Central South University	52.4
Beijing Normal University	52.3
Tongji University	51.9
East China Normal University	49.9
Shenzhen University	49.2
Nankai University	49.1
South China University of Technology	48.7
Tianjin University	48.6
Sichuan University	48.1
Southern Medical University	47
Hunan University	46.5
Xi'an Jiaotong University	46.2
Beihang University	45.7
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	45.1

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

China

Survey time period

2022

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:
teaching (30%) – the learning environment;
research (30%) – volume income and reputation;
citations (30%) – research influence;
industry income (2.5%) – innovation;
international outlook (7.5%) – staff, students and research.

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