According to the latest ESI data released by Clarivate Analytics, SWUFE's Economics & Business and Engineering disciplines are ranked among world's top 1%, a major breakthrough after it entered the top 1% ranking in the fields of Social Sciences, General in March 2020. By far, SWUFE has altogether 3 disciplines ranked among world's top 1%. SWUFE continues to see the progress in its efforts to build the world's first-class economics and management disciplines and the rise of its global academic reputation in recent years.

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 SWUFE Ranked #501-600 Globally by THE

SWUFE is ranked #501-600 in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings according to the latest THE ranking results. SWUFE enjoyed the highest THE ranking among the Chinese universities specialized in finance and economics. The rise in global ranking marked SWUFE's improvement in its  featured disciplines  and overall competitivenes.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the only global performance tables that judge research-intensive universities across all their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators are used to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.