C9 League

The C9 League ( 九校联盟) is an academic conference composed of nine

public universities in China. It was established on May 4, 1998 at the
100th anniversary of Peking University.

Membership C9 League

The C9 league comprises nine public universities:[1]

九校联盟 (Chinese)
Fudan University – Shanghai
Harbin Institute of Technology – Harbin, Heilongjiang
Formation 4 May
Nanjing University – Nanjing, Jiangsu 1998
Peking University – Beijing Founded Beijing,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Shanghai at China

Tsinghua University – Beijing Region China

University of Science and Technology of China – Hefei, Anhui Membership 9

univers
Xi'an Jiaotong University – Xi'an, Shaanxi
Zhejiang University – Hangzhou, Zhejiang Chinese name

Simplified 九校联盟
All C9 League schools are part of the former Project 985, Project
Chinese
211, Plan 111, as well as the current Double First Class University
Plan.[2][3] In 2014, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Traditional Chinese 九
校
started to participate in the C9 League meetings.[4]
聯
盟
Rankings
Transcriptions
The following are the rankings of the C9 schools in the four major Standard Mandarin
world university rankings that are recognized by governments in
Hanyu Jiǔxiào
multiple countries and regions.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Pinyin Liánméng
 QS THE ARWU USNWR
University City Average
(2023)[12] (2024)[13] (2023)[14] (2023)[15]

Founding members

Tsinghua University Beijing 14 12 22 23 18

Peking University Beijing 12 14 29 39 24

Zhejiang University Hangzhou =42 55 33 93 56

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 46 43 46 89 56

Fudan University Shanghai =34 44 54 116 62

University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 94 57 63 102 79

Nanjing University Nanjing 133 73 94 123 106

Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin 217 168 101-150 196 177

Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 302 251-300 101-150 219 231

Participant[4]

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing N/A N/A N/A 112 112

See also
List of universities in China
Double First Class University Plan, a scheme for improving 147 China's
top universities
Excellence League, an alliance of leading Chinese universities with
strong backgrounds in engineering
Project 985, a former project for developing 39 leading research
universities in China
Project 211, a former program for developing 115 comprehensive
universities in China
Seven Sons of National Defence

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