According to the latest data released by the Clarivate ESI (Essential Science Indicators) database on March 12, 2026, our university’s Engineering has successfully entered the ESI Global Top 1% ranking, achieving this breakthrough one phase ahead of forecast. It becomes the second discipline at our university, following Clinical Medicine, to be included in the ESI Global Top 1%, marking a significant advancement in the university’s discipline development and serving as an authoritative recognition of the international impact of its core disciplines.

ESI is a key evaluation tool for measuring the international competitiveness of university disciplines, and thus ranking in Top 1% represents a discipline of globally high-level standing. The inclusion of Engineering in this ranking fully affirms our university’s long-term academic accumulation and strengths in engineering, demonstrating that the discipline’s innovation capacity and research output have reached internationally high standards.

In recent years, guided by a “discipline-led” strategy, our university has focused on quality-oriented development, continuously increasing investment and cultivation efforts in engineering and technology. It has built a distinctive engineering discipline system and produced a number of high-quality research outcomes. The achievement of Engineering entering the ESI Global Top 1% will strongly propel the university’s overall discipline development and optimize its disciplinary ecosystem, providing stronger support in talent and technology for serving local economies, industrial upgrading, and national strategic needs.

Taking this opportunity, the university will continue to deepen discipline development and innovation, promote interdisciplinary integration, and continuously enhance its core competitiveness. It will strive for breakthroughs in more competitive disciplines, laying a solid foundation for building a high-level applied comprehensive university.