Zhejiang University
#49
QS World University Rankings 2026
84
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#49
QS World University Rankings 2026
#47
QS World University Rankings 2025
84
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
- 87
- QS 2026 rank
- #75
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 97.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #36
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 53
- QS 2026 rank
- #355
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 100
- QS 2026 rank
- #11
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 94.1
- QS 2026 rank
- #189
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 23.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #683
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 17.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 94
- QS 2026 rank
- #100
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 74.4
- QS 2026 rank
- #185
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 63
- QS 2026 rank
- #441
About Zhejiang University
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.
Institution record
- Country
- China (Mainland)
- Region
- Asia
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- October 31, 2025
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