九校联盟 | |||||||
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Formation | 4 May 1998 | ||||||
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Founded at | Beijing, China | ||||||
Region | China | ||||||
Membership | 9 universities | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 九校联盟 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 九校聯盟 | ||||||
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The C9 League (九校联盟) is an inter-university seminar composed of nine public universities in China. It was established on May 4, 1998, at the 100th anniversary of Peking University.
The C9 league comprises nine public universities:[1]
All C9 League schools are part of the former Project 985, Project 211, Plan 111, as well as the current Double First-Class Construction.[2][3] In 2014, the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences started to participate in the C9 League meetings.[4]
The following are the rankings of the C9 schools in the four major world university rankings that are recognized by governments in multiple countries and regions.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
University | City | QS
(2023)[12] |
THE
(2024)[13] |
ARWU
(2023)[14] |
USNWR
(2024)[15] |
Average |
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Founding members | ||||||
Tsinghua University | Beijing | 14 | 12 | 22 | 16 | 16 |
Peking University | Beijing | 12 | 14 | 29 | 31 | 21 |
Zhejiang University | Hangzhou | 42 | 55 | 33 | 51 | 45 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Shanghai | 46 | 43 | 46 | 54 | 47 |
Fudan University | Shanghai | 34 | 44 | 54 | 85 | 54 |
University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei | 94 | 57 | 63 | 82 | 74 |
Nanjing University | Nanjing | 133 | 73 | 94 | 98 | 99 |
Harbin Institute of Technology | Harbin | 217 | 168 | 101-150 | 160 | 167 |
Xi'an Jiaotong University | Xi'an | 302 | 251-300 | 101-150 | 179 | 220 |
Participant[4] | ||||||
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | Beijing | N/A | N/A | N/A | 69 | 69 |