QS ranking profile
Zhejiang University
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #49
- Down 2 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #47
- Overall score
- 84
Explore opportunities at Zhejiang University
Browse active research positions, doctoral fellowships, and university funding calls indexed from official faculties and verified sources.
QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
#75 worldwide
#36 worldwide
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#189 worldwide
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#441 worldwide
Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Extra large
- More than 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Focused
- Teaches a limited range of faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Asia
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Zhejiang University
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
Research examples span molecules, materials, data, physics, and living systems
Zhejiang University makes several research directions visible through public faculty material. The examples include biopharmaceutics and immuno-receptor signalling, global-change ecology and plant physiology, polymer deposition and thin-film interfaces, particle physics related to the Large Hadron Collider, medical imaging and data analysis, optoelectronics, and perovskite device physics. These are not one combined programme. They are separate examples that show how widely the university's research pages range across scientific and engineering questions. A reader should use them as clues to research objects and methods, not as evidence that every school or laboratory works across all of these areas.
The differences between the examples are important. A question about a plant-soil interaction needs a different setting from one about atomic layer deposition, magnetic resonance imaging, or a particle-physics measurement. Even two projects that both use computation may be driven by different experimental systems and disciplinary assumptions. Zhejiang University's public material can therefore help narrow an initial search by naming a process, material, instrument, or data problem. After that, locate the college, department, group, or person whose current work provides a stable home for that narrow question.
Research navigation separates people, units, facilities, and collaboration routes
The university's research pages point toward research units, laboratories and centres, colleges and schools, facilities, researcher information, training, technology transfer, and research alliances. Each route serves a different purpose. A researcher profile can reveal a topic or method; a laboratory can show a working environment; a facility can identify a shared technical resource; and an alliance can indicate a broader connection among organisations. They should not be treated as interchangeable. A relevant facility does not prove that a particular team uses it, and a faculty interest line does not explain every part of a laboratory's current activity.
Public research material also refers to subjects such as carbon cycling, scientific computing, machine learning, and neuroplasticity. These are useful examples of how a general interest can become more specific. Carbon cycling directs attention to a system and process, while scientific computing directs attention to a methodological layer. Neuroplasticity describes a biological research object that may rely on its own instruments and data practices. When comparing Zhejiang University with another setting, it is better to preserve those distinctions than to reduce them to a single label such as science or technology. The exact research object should drive the comparison.
Read Zhejiang University through a concrete problem rather than a broad label
A practical Zhejiang University profile begins with one question and one observable research connection. For example, a materials question might be linked to deposition, thin films, crystal growth, or carrier dynamics; a biomedical question might be linked to imaging, data analysis, or a clinical context; an ecology question might be linked to plants, soils, or global change. Then identify the smallest public unit that makes the link visible. This may be a department, a school, a laboratory, or a faculty profile. The smaller unit is usually more useful than a long inventory of subjects because it brings the topic closer to a real method and research environment.
A final note should record what remains uncertain. A listed interest may not reveal whether a team is currently working on the exact material, organism, model, or instrument that matters to the question. A research alliance may indicate contact without showing its role in a particular study. Keeping those limits visible prevents an attractive keyword overlap from becoming a stronger claim than the evidence supports. Zhejiang University provides several distinct public entry points, from individual interests to units and facilities. Used carefully, they help construct a focused route into one research area without flattening the diversity of the institution.