[1][2][3][4][5] Universities and colleges being part of the Double First-Class Construction are considered to be the most elite institutions of Chinese tertiary education, representing the top 5% of overall universities and colleges in Mainland China (approximately 3,000 higher education institutions).
[17] China was also the most-represented nation overall in the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2024 list with 605 universities.
[19] There were 33 universities from Mainland China on lists of the global top 200 in the 2024 Shanghai Ranking's ARWU, behind only the United States in terms of the overall representation.
[26] Similarly, the Times Higher Education Rankings also featured seven universities from China within its global top 100 list.
[27] Notably, this level of representation in both rankings positioned China as the country with the highest overall presence in the Asia & Oceania region.
[28][29][30] These universities are widely recognized as some of the most renowned in China and continuously maintain high rankings nationally and globally.
Other cities with notable representation include Chengdu (13), Hangzhou (13), Guangzhou (12), Tianjin (11), Shenyang (10), Dalian (9), Nanchang (9), Harbin (8), Changsha (8), Chongqing (8), Jinan (8), Changchun (7), Hefei (7), Kunming (7), Qingdao (7), and Zhengzhou (7).
[36] The Chinese university ranking on research and development in 1991 was published in 1993 by Wu Shulian, Guangdong Academy of Management Science, which was registered in the year 1993 as a private institute and later ceased and was claimed to be the Guangdong branch of Chinese Academy of Management Science.
The CUAA Ranking, released in the name of Chinese Universities Alumni Association, is said made by Cai Yanhou team.