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Lanzhou University

China (Mainland)Asia

#791

QS World University Rankings 2026

Not listed

QS 2026 overall score

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Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#791

QS World University Rankings 2026

#721

QS World University Rankings 2025

Not listed

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
9.4
QS 2026 rank
#701

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
5.3
QS 2026 rank
#701

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
43.4
QS 2026 rank
#460

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
47.7
QS 2026 rank
#393

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
3
QS 2026 rank
#801

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
69.6
QS 2026 rank
#540

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
11.1
QS 2026 rank
#801

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
45.3
QS 2026 rank
#801
University profile

About Lanzhou University

Lanzhou University connects science, ecology, medicine, and the Silk Road region

Lanzhou University is a comprehensive research university in Gansu, with academic work across science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, economics, management, humanities, and social sciences. Its history reaches back to the Gansu Law and Politics School founded in 1909, and its current profile includes schools, affiliated hospitals, and a graduate education system. The university's location in northwest China creates a setting for research on mountains, deserts, climate, grasslands, agriculture, water, public health, and regional development.

Natural science and engineering can address materials, chemistry, physics, biology, energy, computing, and environmental systems. Agriculture and grassland work needs soils, plants, livestock, land use, or climate records. Medicine needs patients, hospitals, biological samples, or health services. Economics, law, history, languages, and social science use markets, institutions, archives, communities, and public decisions. Choose the academic unit and facility that own the main evidence.

Lanzhou research supports ecology, environment, medicine, technology, and regional studies

Lanzhou University is known through its public materials for work in natural sciences, ecological systems, environmental change, agriculture, and regional studies. Its affiliated hospitals and science schools provide routes for medical, biological, chemical, and clinical research. The university's position along the historic Silk Road can also support archaeology, history, languages, migration, trade, and cultural exchange, but a regional theme needs a defined archive, route, population, or object.

The northwest setting can supply field observations from mountains, drylands, rivers, grasslands, farms, and cities. A project may compare ecosystems, model water availability, examine public health, or study a regional economy. It may also use a controlled laboratory sample with no field component. State which kind of evidence is required and how the result will be checked.

How to assess a Lanzhou University research route

Start with the object and follow it through the school, institute, hospital, laboratory, field station, and researcher page. Biology and agriculture need organisms, soils, crops, animals, or genetic data. Chemistry and physics need substances, reactions, instruments, models, or observations. Engineering and computing need devices, software, networks, data, or performance measures. Medicine needs patients, services, samples, or outcomes. Humanities and social science need texts, archives, communities, markets, laws, or institutions.

At Lanzhou, frame the work as laboratory, digital, clinical, ecological, archaeological, archival, field, or policy research. Name the mountain, river, grassland, hospital, farm, archive, company, neighbourhood, dataset, or laboratory that supplies the evidence. Lanzhou may be a field site, a regional urban setting, a medical base, or simply the university location. Explain that role and identify the first sample, map, interview, record, model, or measurement. The wider regional theme should remain connected to one research unit and one feasible result.

A practical Lanzhou University research question

A workable Lanzhou question links a regional process to a defined observation. It might measure grassland change, model water, analyse a hospital service, study a Silk Road archive, test a material, or examine agricultural production. Name the school, evidence, and first method. State the season, archive boundary, patient group, or production stage that limits the work. That boundary makes a northwest China topic possible to compare and interpret. It also clarifies which result belongs to the field site and which comes from the laboratory. This makes the regional comparison explicit from the start.

Institution record

Country
China (Mainland)
Region
Asia
Status
Public
QS size code
XL
Profile record updated
October 31, 2025

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