2024 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 13 in Asia for Social Sciences
2024 – QS World University Ranking
No. 12 in Asia for Social Sciences & Management
No. 7 in Asia for Citations per Paper in Social Sciences & Management
No. 55 in the world for Social Sciences & Management
2020 – University Grants Council Research Assessment Exercise
We are very proud of our faculty’s research, which was recognized in the latest round of Hong Kong’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2020. In the RAE, we scored:
No. 1 for ‘World-leading’ (4*) research (outputs, impact and environment) across the Social Sciences
No. 1 for ‘World-leading’ (4*) research (outputs, impact and environment) in Political Science (incl. public policy & administration & international relations)
No. 1 for ‘World-leading’ (4*) and ‘Internationally excellent’ (3*) research (outputs, impact and environment) in Sociology and Anthropology
No. 3 for ‘World-leading’ (4*) research (outputs, impact and environment) across the Humanities
No. 2 for ‘World-leading’ (4*) research (outputs, impact and environment) in History
Measured By World Leading 4-star Research Output
Archive(2014 - 2023)
2023 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 100-125 in the world for Social Sciences
2023 – QS World University Ranking
No. 55 in the world for Social Sciences & Management
2022 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 101-125 in the world for Social Sciences
2022 – QS World University Ranking
No. 33 in the world for Social Sciences & Management
2021 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 74 in the world for Social Sciences
2021 – QS World University Ranking
No. 33 in the world for Social Sciences & Management
2020 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 51 in the world for Social Sciences
2020 – QS World University Ranking
No. 2 in Citations per paper in Social Science among Asian Universities
No. 8 in Asia for Social Science and Management
No. 33 in the world for Social Science & Management
2019 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 61 in the world for Social Sciences
2019 – QS World University Ranking
No. 1 in Citations per paper in Social Science among Asian Universities
No. 6 in Asia for Social Science and Management
No. 26 in the world for Social Science & Management
2018 – QS World University Ranking
No. 1 in Citations per paper in Social Science among Asian Universities
No. 5 in Asia for Social Sciences & Management
No. 24 in the world for Social Science & Management
No. 28 in Asia for Arts & Humanities
2017 – Times Higher Education Rankings
No. 1 in Citations in Social Science among Asian Universities
No. 80 in the world for Social Sciences
2017 – QS World University Ranking
No. 27 in the world for Social Science & Management
2017 – Academic Ranking of World Universities
No. 29 in the world in Social Science / Business Administration (with Business School, HKUST)
No. 101-150 in the world for Social Science
2014 – University Grants Council Research Assessment Exercise
No. 1 in Hong Kong in Economics, Other Arts and Humanities, Other Social Studies
No. 2 in Hong Kong in Political Science (incl. Public Policy; Administration; International Relations), Sociology; Anthropology (tied with CUHK)
Measured By World Leading 4-star Research Output