CHINA Top Univeristy Report

2014-2015
COUNTRY REPORT
CHINA
CHINA
Copyright © 2004-2014 QS Intelligence Unit (a division of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd)

QS World University Rankings® 2014-2015 - COUNTRY REPORT CHINA
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
2 VERIFIED DATA
3 SURVEY PERFORMANCE & CLASSIFICATIONS
4 OVERALL RANKINGS RESULTS
5 TOP UNIVERSITIES - CHINA
6 SYSTEM STRENGTH
7 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FLOWS
8 FACULTY AREA PERFORMANCE
9 TOP UNIVERSITIES BY FACULTY AREA
10 TREND INDICATORS
11 SUMMARY
12 ABOUT QSIU
13 GLOSSARY
1
VERIFIED DATA
INSTITUTIONS
CAPITAL Beijing 117 / 27
SURVEYED / RANKED
REGION East Asia & Pacific AVG INSTITUTION AGE 91
INCOME GROUP Upper middle income AVG INSTITUTION SIZE 35,279 students
CURRENCY Chinese yuan AVG INST OUTPUT 24,607 papers 2

Source: World Bank
DEMOGRAPHICS & ECONOMICS

DEMOGRAPHICS & ECONOMICS World Development Indicators
Updated July 2014
POPULATION
1960
2013
1.4bn
POPULATION DENSITY (PER KM2)

1960
2013
144.8
POPULATION AGE 65+

1960
2013
15-64
0-14
GDP GROWTH
1980
2013
7.7%
GDP PER CAPITA

1991
2013
$10,945
R&D EXPENDITURE (%GDP)

1998
2011
2.0%
EDUCATION EXPENDITURE (%GDP)

1998
2011
1.9%
EXPENDITURE PER TERTIARY STUDENT (%GDP per capita)

1998
2011
90.0%
Size
Status TERTIARY ENROLLMENT (%gross)

1971
2012
Focus 27%
Research
Age RATIO FEMALE TO MALE TERTIARY ENROLLMENTS

% male
2
1971
2012
english programs
% female

SURVEY PERFORMANCE & CLASSIFICATIONS

QS SURVEY PERFORMANCE
QS GLOBAL ACADEMIC SURVEY QS GLOBAL EMPLOYER SURVEY

Response Count 862 Response Count 669
% Global 1.52% % Global EM 2.52%
Rank by response 19 Rank by response EM 12
Senior Human
Professor / Associate
Average seniority Average seniority Resources /
Professor
Recruitment
Dept head or higher 152 Manufacturing /
Top responding sector
Avg. yrs in academia 19 Engineering
QS CLASSIFICATIONS
China
SIZE
Very Large Large Medium Small
Global
China
FOCUS
Comprehensive+ Comprehensive Focused Specialist
Global RESEARCH
China
Very High High Moderate Limited or None
Global
China
AGE
Historic Mature Established Young New

Global
China
STATUS
Public Private not for profit Private for profit

Global
FIGURE 1 QS Classifications by institution count: China vs. Global

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OVERALL RANKINGS RESULTS

OVERALL RANKINGS RESULTS
RANGE 2011 2012 2013 2014

1-100 3 3 3 3
101-200 4 4 4 4
201-300 0 1 1 1
301-400 2 1 3 5
401-500 7 10 6 5
501-600 4 2 5 7
ah 601-700 0 2 3 0
et 701-800 0 2
ls OVERALL 20 23 25 27
ns
improved unchanged declined
ss
FIGURE 1 Number of institutions featured in the given range over the past four years
China vs. Global Average China - 2014 vs. 2013
-23.1 0.3
-15.8 +5.0
-4.1 +8.3 +3.6 +1.8
+1.4 -1.4
+8.9 +0.8
ACADEMIC REPUTATION EMPLOYER REPUTATION FACULTY STUDENT

CITATIONS PER FACULTY INTERNATIONAL FACULTY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
FIGURE 1 Indicator variances from global averages and last year's performance (denoted by the black ring)
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TOP UNIVERSITIES - CHINA

TOP UNIVERSITIES - CHINA
2014 2013
INSTITUTION
GLOBAL GLOBAL
47 #1 Tsinghua University 47 48 -1 626
57 #2 Peking University 57= 46 11 50
71 #3 Fudan University 71= 88 -17 218
104 #4 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 104 123 -19 556
144 #5 Zhejiang University 144 165 -21 692
147 #6 University of Science and Technology of China 147= 174 -27 122
162 #7 Nanjing University 162= 175= -13 430
240 #8 Beijing Normal University 240= 252 -12 869
321 #9 Sun Yat-sen University 321 384 -63 888
328 #10 Nankai University 328= 363= -35 882
335 #11 Wuhan University 335= 401-410 -66 889
379 #12 Xi'an Jiaotong University 379= 372 7 683
393 #13 Tongji University 393 481-490 -88 617
441 #14 Xiamen University 441-450 501-550 -60 891
451 #15 Beihang University 451-460 401-410 50 870
5
SYSTEM STRENGTH
NATIONAL SYSTEM STRENGTH - QS SAFE
Since 2008, QS has blended the ranking results with other country data to compile a ranking of higher education systems.
It uses four indicators:
SYSTEM ACCESS
S Indexed score based on the collective A Score based on the number of places
performance of institutions in the QS at ranked universities factored against
World University Rankings® the size of the population
FLAGSHIP ECONOMIC
F Score based on the position of the top E An index based on the number of
performing university in the country in ranked universities factored against
the QS World University Rankings® economic strength (GDP per capita)
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
S
SCORE 76.5 80.2 82.7 81.4 79.9
RANK 10 10 10 9 10
10
A
SCORE 18.2 40.6 40.6 26.8 33.9
RANK 42 34 34 35 33
33
F
SCORE 95 95 96 96.1 96.7
RANK 11 11 11 12 12
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E
SCORE 98 99.7 99.5 99.8 99.1
RANK 4 2 2 2 2
2
SA SCORE 71.9 78.9 79.7 76 77.4
SAFE
FE RANK 13 10 11 11 11
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FLOWS
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FLOWS

1 2 3 4 5
'NEW FF'!HT166 'NEW FF'!HT166 'NEW FF'!HT166 'NEW FF'!HT166 'NEW FF'!HT166
TOTAL INBOUND TOTAL OUTBOUND
761,992
Growth 2000-12: *reported destinations
United States (210,452) Japan (96,592) Australia (87,497) United Kingdom (83,177)South Korea (43,698)
1 2 3 4 5
UNITED STATES JAPAN AUSTRALIA UNITED KINGDOM SOUTH KOREA

210,452 96,592 87,497 83,177 43,698
Maps!C94 Maps!C49 Maps!C5 Maps!C35 Maps!C50
OECD (2014), Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-2014-en 7
FACULTY AREA PERFORMANCE

FACULTY AREA PERFORMANCE
QS has produced results in these five faculty areas since 2004. Until 2012 they were based purely on academic reputation
but from 2013 they were refined to embrace other indicators on a similar basis to our rankings in narrower fields. Read
more on www.iu.qs.com.
FACULTY AREA CHINA GLOBAL vs.

Indicator 2013 2014 2013 2014 Global
Arts & Humanities Arts & Humanities 51.8 63.5 53.9 65.4
Engineering
Engineering & Technology & Technology 64.9 71.4 57.6 72.2
Life
Life Sciences & Medicine Sciences & Medicine 53.1 62.3 56.4 67.0
Natural Sciences Natural Sciences 66.5 71.2 59.7 72.0
Social
cial Sciences & Management Sciences & Mgmt 57.1 68.7 55.9 69.6
FIGURE 1 Average score by faculty area, year on year, China and Global
China vs. Global Average China - 2014 vs. 2013
ARTS & ARTS &

HUMANITIES HUMANITIES
SOCIAL SCIENCES
SOCIAL SCIENCES
& TECHNOLOGY
& TECHNOLOGY
ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING
& MGMT
& MGMT
NATURAL LIFE SCIENCES NATURAL LIFE SCIENCES

SCIENCES & MEDICINE SCIENCES & MEDICINE
COUNTRY GLOBAL 2014 2013
FIGURE 1 Average score by faculty area, year on year, China and Global
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TOP UNIVERSITIES BY FACULTY AREA

TOP UNIVERSITIES BY FACULTY AREA
1 Peking University [21=]

2 Tsinghua University [45]
ARTS &
3 Fudan University [60=]
HUMANITIES
4 Beijing Normal University [111=]
5 Nanjing University [188]
1 Tsinghua University [12]

2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University [24=]
ENGINEERING
3 Peking University [41]
& TECHNOLOGY
4 Zhejiang University [76=]

LIFE SCIENCES
3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University [156=]
& MEDICINE
4 Tsinghua University [193=]
5 Zhejiang University [248=]

NATURAL
3 University of Science and Technology of China [61=]
SCIENCES
4 Fudan University [72]
5 Nanjing University [89=]

SOCIAL SCIENCES
& MANAGEMENT
4
5
Shanghai Jiao Tong University [100=]
Beijing Normal University [145=]
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TREND INDICATORS
TREND INDICATORS
RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY & QUALITY
4.5% Average change in five-year count of papers published
23.1% Average change in five-year count of citations acquired (excluding self-citations)
21.6% Average change in citations per faculty
-2.9% Average change in proportion of self-citations
STUDENT NUMBERS & DEMOGRAPHICS
5.1% Average change in total student numbers
208 Average change in number of FTE international students
12.9% Average change in proportion of FTE international students
FACULTY PROVISION
1.2% Average change in total faculty numbers
-3.7% Average change in faculty student ratio
102 Average change in number of FTE international faculty
66.2% Average change in proportion of FTE international faculty
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RANKINGS
SUMMARY
SUMMARY TIMELINE
2004
The QS World University Rankings® have been published since 2004. Whilst the headline QS World University Rankings®
measures have not changed since 2005, the methodology has undergone persistent launch in October - 200
refinement as reflected in the timeline and a number of other evaluations have, institutions featured
furthermore, been added to the QS portfolio over the past ten years.
2005
Employer Reputation
2014 marks the celebration of ten years of the QS World University Rankings®.
introduced
November will see the release of a retrospective book examining the evolution as well as
the impact of the rankings over the past decade, and the journey travelled by some of the 2006
world's best institutions. Rankings have been part of a transformative period in Fact files dispatched for the
international higher education and the next ten years promise to be no less dramatic. first time
2007
Switch to Scopus; FTE as
A tenth anniversary retrospective on
standard; normalization
rankings and their impact on global higher introduced
education will be published in November
2008
QS SAFE System Strength
analysis first conducted;
Domestic and international
Whether or not you approve of our methodology or agree with our results, it is clear that responses isolated in survey
rankings are becoming an increasingly influential factor in a diverse range of decisions - analysis - 604 institutions
from students choosing a university, to institutions selecting partners, from governments featured
setting immigration policy, to scholarship providers shortlisting applicants.
2009
In 2013, over 1.1m distinct people visited topuniversities.com in the first week after Qualtrics employed for surveys;
Asia ranking launched
launch, over 2.4m in the first month comprising over 12.5m page views. There is no
denying the popularity and impact of rankings - the QS rankings in particular. 2010
Damping introduced; caps
Inevitably, there will always be ups and downs in a ranking and we recognise that introduced for international
universities cannot be fully summed up by a single number - which is exactly why QS has indicators; international
evolved a broader range of evaluations designed to highlight excellence in different advisory board established
aspects and contexts. QSIU is always seeking new ideas for further development.
2011
Subject rankings launched;
UNDERSTANDING THIS COUNTRY REPORT self-citations excluded; Latin
Data from multiple sources has gone into creating this country report: America ranking begun - 713
institutions featured in world
1. World Bank indicators have been selected which have a bearing on higher education ranking
2. Where available OECD data on the migration of students has been included for 2012
the top five origin and destination countries QS Best Student Cities and QS
3. The QS World University Rankings(R) have been sliced and diced to give an Top 50 Under 50 launched
indication of the collective strength of universities
2013
4. QS SAFE measures are featured to look at the actual vs. expected system strength
BRICS ranking launched; H-
index added to subject
Hopefully in the main, the report is self-explanatory, the objective has been clear visuals
rankings; subject approach
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and a consise tone, but if there are unanswered questions or clarifications, ideas for
applied to faculty areas - 834
refinements or you need reproducible graphics, please get in touch and we'll see what we
institutions in world ranking
can do.

ABOUT QSIU
ABOUT QSIU
The QS Intelligence Unit (QSIU) was formed in 2008 from the team that had been operating the QS World University
Rankings® since 2004. The team now comprises more than 20 people from 15 countries people and. In addition to these
rankings, by the end of 2014, QSIU will have published five regional rankings, discipline level rankings in 30 separate
subjects, city rankings and various MBA rankings.
Through this experience, QSIU has become a leading authority on performance evaluation, management and improvement
in higher education and, perhaps, the foremost independent market intelligence compiler dedicated exclusively to
international higher education.
As a private company, our work attracts particular scrutiny and since our business is entirely dependent on the continued
good will of higher education institutions and the trust of key stakeholders, in particular students from all over the world, we
relentelessy work on building our reputation by living our values. Integrity, independence and transparency are the
principles that guide and inspire our work, coupled with a passion for higher education and the constant urge to produce
innovative and useful intellegence. The compilation of rankings is, and must remain, independent from everything else the
company does. To this end, the QS Intelligence Unit was the first, and remains the only, compiler of global university
rankings to open its practices to external scrutiny and is proud to have had a number of it's rankings "IREG Approved" as of
May 2013.
For more information on QSIU, as well as its projects and services, please visit www.iu.qs.com
If you have questions or suggestions about this report please contact
QS Intelligence Unit
1 Tranley Mews, Fleet Road, London NW3 2DG, UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 20 7428 2782

Email: intelligenceunit@qs.com
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GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY
A score based on the analysis of responses gathered over a three year period in
1 Academic Reputation
the QS Global Academic Survey
A collective term for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa often used in an
2 BRICS
economic context
3 Citation A reference to one publication in the bibliography of another
A score based on the analysis of responses gathered over a three year period in
4 Employer Reputation
the QS Global Employer Survey
Five broad subject areas used by QS to segment analysis - Arts & Humanities,
5 Faculty Areas Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social
Sciences & Management
6 Faculty Student A score based on the ratio between FTE faculty and student counts
Full Time Equivalent - a way to calculate and compare staff and student numbers
7 FTE
independently of the balance between full-time and part-time
A score based on the H-index calculated on all papers an institution has published
8 H
in a given faculty area
9 Interquartile range The range between the 25th and 75th percentiles in any given range
IREG (International Ranking Expert Group) Observatory on Academic Rankings and

10 IREG
Excellence - www.ireg-observatory.org
11 Normalization A statistical approach designed to make distinct measures more fairly comparable
12 QS Best Student Cities A separate evaluation of the best city destinations for international study
System. Access. Flagship. Economic. An evaluation of national HE system strength

13 QS SAFE
drawing on rankings and other data inputs.
An enterprise-level survey deployment and analysis software platform used by

14 Qualtrics
many HE institutions and by QS since 2009
The world's largest database of abstracts and citations of peer-reviewed literature

15 Scopus
operated by Elsevier. More on http://info.scopus.com
A citation referencing the author's own previously published work. These are
16 Self-citation
excluded from all QS analysis
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3 SURVEY PERFORMANCE & CLASSIFICATIONS

4 OVERALL RANKINGS RESULTS

5 TOP UNIVERSITIES - CHINA

7 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FLOWS

8 FACULTY AREA PERFORMANCE

9 TOP UNIVERSITIES BY FACULTY AREA

REGION East Asia & Pacific AVG INSTITUTION AGE 91

CURRENCY Chinese yuan AVG INST OUTPUT 24,607 papers 2

Source: World Bank

DEMOGRAPHICS & ECONOMICS

POPULATION DENSITY (PER KM2)

POPULATION AGE 65+

GDP PER CAPITA

R&D EXPENDITURE (%GDP)

EDUCATION EXPENDITURE (%GDP)

EXPENDITURE PER TERTIARY STUDENT (%GDP per capita)

Status TERTIARY ENROLLMENT (%gross)

Age RATIO FEMALE TO MALE TERTIARY ENROLLMENTS

Copyright © 2004-2014 QS Intelligence Unit (a division of QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd)

SURVEY PERFORMANCE & CLASSIFICATIONS

QS GLOBAL ACADEMIC SURVEY QS GLOBAL EMPLOYER SURVEY

Historic Mature Established Young New

Public Private not for profit Private for profit

FIGURE 1 QS Classifications by institution count: China vs. Global

OVERALL RANKINGS RESULTS

RANGE 2011 2012 2013 2014

China vs. Global Average China - 2014 vs. 2013

-4.1 +8.3 +3.6 +1.8

ACADEMIC REPUTATION EMPLOYER REPUTATION FACULTY STUDENT

TOP UNIVERSITIES - CHINA

47 #1 Tsinghua University 47 48 -1 626

57 #2 Peking University 57= 46 11 50

71 #3 Fudan University 71= 88 -17 218

104 #4 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 104 123 -19 556

144 #5 Zhejiang University 144 165 -21 692

162 #7 Nanjing University 162= 175= -13 430

240 #8 Beijing Normal University 240= 252 -12 869

321 #9 Sun Yat-sen University 321 384 -63 888

328 #10 Nankai University 328= 363= -35 882

335 #11 Wuhan University 335= 401-410 -66 889

379 #12 Xi'an Jiaotong University 379= 372 7 683

393 #13 Tongji University 393 481-490 -88 617

441 #14 Xiamen University 441-450 501-550 -60 891

451 #15 Beihang University 451-460 401-410 50 870

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FLOWS

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FLOWS

TOTAL INBOUND TOTAL OUTBOUND

UNITED STATES JAPAN AUSTRALIA UNITED KINGDOM SOUTH KOREA

FACULTY AREA PERFORMANCE

FACULTY AREA CHINA GLOBAL vs.

China vs. Global Average China - 2014 vs. 2013

ARTS & ARTS &

NATURAL LIFE SCIENCES NATURAL LIFE SCIENCES

COUNTRY GLOBAL 2014 2013

TOP UNIVERSITIES BY FACULTY AREA

1 Peking University [21=]

1 Tsinghua University [12]

1 Peking University [82]

1 Peking University [20]

1 Peking University [29]

RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY & QUALITY