Subfield · Hardware and Architecture
Top Hardware and Architecture Research Institutions
Tsinghua University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 40 ranked institutions.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.
Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025
| # | Institution | Score | Top-10% rate | Works | Citations | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsinghua University China · Beijing | 100.0 | 19.7% | 179 | 1.1k | #43 |
| 2 | Peking University China · Beijing | 81.2 | 18.3% | 120 | 591 | #89 |
| 3 | University of Florida United States · Gainesville | 70.2 | 19.9% | 144 | 715 | #35 |
| 4 | Georgia Institute of Technology United States · Atlanta | 62.4 | 21.5% | 104 | 492 | #12 |
| 5 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University China · Shanghai | 56.4 | 15.1% | 136 | 546 | — |
| 6 | National University of Singapore Singapore · Singapore | 51.4 | 30.0% | 62 | 428 | #46 |
| 7 | Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing | 47.2 | 14.7% | 115 | 458 | — |
| 8 | Intel (United States) United States · Santa Clara | 43.6 | 14.4% | 107 | 477 | #4 |
| 9 | Technical University of Munich Germany · Munich | 40.4 | 16.3% | 97 | 456 | #50 |
| 10 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States · Urbana | 37.6 | 24.3% | 70 | 399 | #6 |
| 11 | National University of Defense Technology China · Changsha | 35.0 | 8.0% | 192 | 499 | — |
| 12 | ETH Zurich Switzerland · Zurich | 32.6 | 23.0% | 79 | 393 | #25 |
| 13 | Carnegie Mellon University United States · Pittsburgh | 30.5 | 17.6% | 70 | 376 | #3 |
| 14 | Nanyang Technological University Singapore · Singapore | 28.5 | 19.6% | 67 | 352 | #76 |
| 15 | Beihang University China · Beijing | 26.6 | 13.8% | 93 | 376 | — |
| 16 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India · Coimbatore | 24.8 | 11.3% | 125 | 308 | — |
| 17 | Southeast University China · Nanjing | 23.2 | 9.5% | 91 | 242 | — |
| 18 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing | 21.6 | 12.5% | 78 | 303 | — |
| 19 | Politecnico di Milano Italy · Milan | 20.2 | 14.9% | 72 | 286 | #80 |
| 20 | Samsung (South Korea) South Korea · Seoul | 18.8 | 10.4% | 64 | 301 | — |
| 21 | Xidian University China · Xi'an | 17.5 | 12.4% | 88 | 285 | — |
| 22 | Politecnico di Torino Italy · Turin | 16.2 | 15.2% | 80 | 279 | #87 |
| 23 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany · Karlsruhe | 15.0 | 10.3% | 76 | 313 | #65 |
| 24 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology China · Wuhan | 13.8 | 14.9% | 70 | 324 | — |
| 25 | Seoul National University South Korea · Seoul | 12.7 | 17.0% | 60 | 313 | #53 |
| 26 | University of Science and Technology of China China · Hefei | 11.7 | 8.8% | 93 | 248 | — |
| 27 | Fudan University China · Shanghai | 10.7 | 10.2% | 95 | 290 | — |
| 28 | Purdue University West Lafayette United States · West Lafayette | 9.7 | 13.8% | 74 | 259 | #19 |
| 29 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France · Paris | 8.7 | 10.5% | 90 | 251 | #77 |
| 30 | Zhejiang University China · Hangzhou | 7.8 | 10.2% | 83 | 262 | — |
| 31 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China · Beijing | 6.9 | 11.3% | 70 | 178 | — |
| 32 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain · Barcelona | 6.0 | 11.6% | 67 | 238 | #38 |
| 33 | Sun Yat-sen University China · Guangzhou | 5.2 | 9.1% | 73 | 178 | — |
| 34 | Institute of Computing Technology China · Beijing | 4.4 | 10.6% | 68 | 163 | — |
| 35 | Sungkyunkwan University South Korea · Seoul | 3.6 | 11.3% | 61 | 193 | — |
| 36 | RWTH Aachen University Germany · Aachen | 2.9 | 12.0% | 67 | 151 | — |
| 37 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China · Chengdu | 2.1 | 7.7% | 90 | 211 | — |
| 38 | KU Leuven Belgium · Leuven | 139.0 | 10.8% | 63 | 202 | #45 |
| 39 | Technische Universität Dresden Germany · Dresden | 68.6 | 9.7% | 66 | 193 | #86 |
| 40 | Vellore Institute of Technology University India · Vellore | 0.0 | 8.4% | 60 | 140 | — |
institutions ranked worldwide in Hardware and Architecture (40). rank on the composite score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field.
How spread out this pool is
Every row above on one axis — one tick each, right is a higher score. A field where the top few are far clear of everyone and one that runs down evenly look identical as a table.
One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.
Ranked by volume, 2022–2025
- 1 National University of Defense Technology China 192 works
- 2 Tsinghua University China 179 works
- 3 University of Florida United States 144 works
- 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 136 works
- 5 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India 125 works
- 6 Peking University China 120 works
- 7 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 115 works
- 8 Intel (United States) United States 107 works
- 9 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 104 works
- 10 Technical University of Munich Germany 97 works
- 11 Fudan University China 95 works
- 12 University of Science and Technology of China China 93 works
- 13 Beihang University China 93 works
- 14 Southeast University China 91 works
- 15 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China 90 works