Jilin University
#473
QS World University Rankings 2026
33.5
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#473
QS World University Rankings 2026
#497
QS World University Rankings 2025
33.5
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 16.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #701
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 47.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #276
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 35.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #557
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 53.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #342
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 15.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #791
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 2.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 1.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 65.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #620
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 33
- QS 2026 rank
- #513
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 48.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #743
About Jilin University
Jilin University's nine faculties prevent a single-subject reading of its research structure
Jilin University, or JLU, presents a comprehensive academic structure through nine faculties: arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, engineering, information sciences, earth sciences, medical sciences, agriculture, and interdisciplinary studies. Its public academic pages list schools and colleges across philosophy, history, languages, law, economics, public administration, mathematics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, mechanical and aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, materials, transportation, computer science, software, earth sciences, construction, medicine, public health, pharmacy, nursing, veterinary medicine, and agricultural fields. This breadth means a familiar topic can sit in several different local settings.
A question about environmental change may involve earth science, agriculture, biology, engineering, public administration, or law. A health question could require clinical, biological, pharmaceutical, public-health, psychological, or social evidence. A digital-system question may connect information science with engineering, data, governance, or human use. The purpose of the faculty map is not to assign every question a single home. It is to make comparison more careful. The next source should show which school, research institution, laboratory, group, or output names the object and provides a context for studying it.
Research institutions, platforms, laboratories, and journals create separate trails
JLU's research navigation distinguishes research institutions, global research and innovation platforms, key research bases and key laboratories, and journals. These are separate kinds of public trail. An institution or laboratory can show an organised research setting. A platform may point toward collaboration or a specialised route. A journal record can indicate a publication venue or subject area. None of these categories alone tells a reader which method or project is currently associated with a topic. A focused search should use them to find the record closest to the actual material, process, or question being investigated.
The university's public information also makes disciplines from archaeology and linguistics to engineering, medical sciences, agriculture, and information sciences visible. That variety has practical consequences. Archaeology may involve sites, objects, spatial records, and historical interpretation. Automotive or materials work can require components, tests, simulations, and performance data. A medical question may need clinical records, samples, images, or population evidence. A governance or legal question may call for documents, cases, interviews, or administrative data. The subject should guide the evidence trail, rather than the assumption that a school name is enough to explain research practice.
Tracing a JLU question through its faculty and research record
At Jilin University, write the research object in specific language before browsing the academic list. It could be a vehicle component, a geological formation, a molecular mechanism, a public-health pattern, a crop condition, a legal institution, a cultural text, or a computational process. Then identify the records or materials needed to explore it: samples, field measurements, device tests, images, documents, interviews, datasets, code, maps, or published findings. That preparation gives the academic and research navigation a concrete purpose: it helps a reader reject a merely adjacent topic.
The final connection should be based on the narrowest public record that is available. JLU's main pages establish a wide faculty structure and several routes through institutions, platforms, laboratories, and journals. They cannot establish a future research arrangement or the resources of a particular group. If a local source connects the chosen object with a school, laboratory, project, or output, that relationship can be described clearly. If it only identifies a broad field, keep the claim tentative and seek more detail. This gives the profile a practical purpose without making a university-wide directory do more than it can support.
Institution record
- Country
- China (Mainland)
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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