China: best universities 2023

This statistic provides a ranking of the leading universities in China as of 2023, as ranked by Times Higher Education. That year, Tsinghua University ranked highest in China with an overall score of 88.2.

Leading universities in China as ranked by Times Higher Education in 2023

Characteristic	Times Higher Education score
Tsinghua University	88.2
Peking University	87.8
Fudan University	73.4
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	73.4
Zhejiang University	71.6
University of Science and Technology of China	69
Nanjing University	67.4
Southern University of Science and Technology	62.7
Huazhong University of Science and Technology	60.8
Wuhan University	59.9
Sichuan University	57.9
Tongji University	54.7
Beijing Normal University	54.4
Sun Yat-sen University	53.7
Central South University	51.8
Harbin Institute of Technology	51.7
South China University of Technology	50.6
Nankai University	50
Tianjin University	50
Hunan University	49
East China Normal University	48.7
Shenzhen University	48.6
Southern Medical University	48
Southeast University	48
Xiamen University	47.9

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

China

Survey time period

2023

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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