Hong Kong - 26 days ago

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a new milestone in the 2026 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, placing 41st globally – up three places from last year and marking the University’s best performance since the rankings were launched. CUHK has remained in the world’s top 100 universities for a decade, underscoring its leading position in the global higher education sector.
Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, CUHK’s Vice-Chancellor and President, said: “The milestone of reaching the 41st in THE Rankings is deeply encouraging and represents our best result to date. It reflects our continuous progress in teaching, research and internationalisation, and the collective efforts of our faculty members, staff, students and alumni. Maintaining a top-100 position for ten consecutive years affirms CUHK’s leadership in international higher education and inspires us to further promote knowledge innovation. Looking ahead, CUHK will stay vigilant to the challenges ahead and remain committed to nurturing globally-minded future leaders with academic excellence and aspirations to contribute back to societies.”
In this edition, CUHK achieved a perfect score of 100 for five performance indicators: “Institutional income”, “Research productivity”, “Research income”, “Research excellence” and “Patents.” And among all indicators, “Doctorate-bachelor ratio” and “Teaching reputation” recorded the most notable improvement year on year.
The THE Rankings took 17 performance indicators[1] in five areas into account this year, judging universities from around the world for their performance in teaching, research environment, research quality, industry and international outlook.
[1] The 2026 indicators include Teaching (Doctorate-bachelor ratio, Doctorate-staff ratio, Institutional income, Student-staff ratio, Teaching reputation); Research Environment (Research productivity, Research income, Research reputation); Research Quality (Citation impact, Research excellence, Research strength, Research influence); Industry (Industry income, Patents) and International Outlook (International co-authorship, International staff, International students).

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