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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

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 100.0 19.7% 179 1.1k#43
2 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 81.2 18.3% 120 591#89
3 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 70.2 19.9% 144 715#35
4 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Atlanta 62.4 21.5% 104 492#12
5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 56.4 15.1% 136 546—
6 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 51.4 30.0% 62 428#46
7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · 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 MunichGermany · Munich 40.4 16.3% 97 456#50
10 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 37.6 24.3% 70 399#6
11 National University of Defense TechnologyChina · Changsha 35.0 8.0% 192 499—
12 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 32.6 23.0% 79 393#25
13 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh 30.5 17.6% 70 376#3
14 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore 28.5 19.6% 67 352#76
15 Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing 26.6 13.8% 93 376—
16 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia · Coimbatore 24.8 11.3% 125 308—
17 Southeast UniversityChina · Nanjing 23.2 9.5% 91 242—
18 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 21.6 12.5% 78 303—
19 Politecnico di MilanoItaly · Milan 20.2 14.9% 72 286#80
20 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea · Seoul 18.8 10.4% 64 301—
21 Xidian UniversityChina · Xi'an 17.5 12.4% 88 285—
22 Politecnico di TorinoItaly · Turin 16.2 15.2% 80 279#87
23 Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany · Karlsruhe 15.0 10.3% 76 313#65
24 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 13.8 14.9% 70 324—
25 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 12.7 17.0% 60 313#53
26 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 11.7 8.8% 93 248—
27 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 10.7 10.2% 95 290—
28 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 9.7 13.8% 74 259#19
29 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 8.7 10.5% 90 251#77
30 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 7.8 10.2% 83 262—
31 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina · Beijing 6.9 11.3% 70 178—
32 Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain · Barcelona 6.0 11.6% 67 238#38
33 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 5.2 9.1% 73 178—
34 Institute of Computing TechnologyChina · Beijing 4.4 10.6% 68 163—
35 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 3.6 11.3% 61 193—
36 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany · Aachen 2.9 12.0% 67 151—
37 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Chengdu 2.1 7.7% 90 211—
38 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 139.0 10.8% 63 202#45
39 Technische Universität DresdenGermany · Dresden 68.6 9.7% 66 193#86
40 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia · 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.

0 – 5: 7 places5 – 10: 6 places10 – 15: 4 places15 – 20: 4 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 2 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 places70 – 75: 1 places75 – 80: 0 places80 – 85: 1 places85 – 90: 0 places90 – 95: 0 places95 – 100: 1 places0100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 192 works
  2. 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 179 works
  3. 3 University of FloridaUnited States 144 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 136 works
  5. 5 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 125 works
  6. 6 Peking UniversityChina 120 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 115 works
  8. 8 Intel (United States)United States 107 works
  9. 9 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 104 works
  10. 10 Technical University of MunichGermany 97 works
  11. 11 Fudan UniversityChina 95 works
  12. 12 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 93 works
  13. 13 Beihang UniversityChina 93 works
  14. 14 Southeast UniversityChina 91 works
  15. 15 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 90 works

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