Xiangtan University (XTU; ) is a provincial public university in Xiangtan, Hunan, China. It is affiliated with the province of Hunan, and co-funded by the Hunan Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education of China, and SASTIND. The university is part of the Double First-Class Construction.
History In 1958, under the proposal of Mao Zedong, Xiangtan University was founded in Xiangtan County of Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born and grew up. The university ceased to run by the order of the provincial government in 1959 and ultimately recovered the university operation in 1974.
Rankings
General Rankings As of 2025, the Best Chinese Universities Ranking, also known as the "Shanghai Ranking", placed the Xiangtan University the best in Xiangtan and 4th in Hunan (the only university among the top 5 in the province located outside Changsha, the capital of Hunan).
As of 2025, the Academic Ranking of World Universities placed Xiangtan University # 701-800th globally.
In 2017, Times Higher Education ranked the university top 800–1000 in the world. Xiangtan University was ranked in the top 1000 universities in the world by a number of international rankings including the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Times Higher Education, and the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).
Research and Subject Rankings The 2024 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked Xiangtan University at 575th in the world based on their publications for the period 2019–2022. The Nature Index Annual Tables 2025 by Nature Research ranked Xiangtan University among the top 350 leading universities globally for the high quality of research publications in natural science. Subjects ranking by2025 Global RankingU.S. News & World Report Best Global University RankingChemical Engineering# 220Mathematics # 229Environmental Engineering# 236Nanoscience and Nanotechnology# 271Physical Chemistry# 302Energy and Fuels# 330Material Science# 389Chemistry# 562Electrical and Electronic Engineering# 589Computer Science# 670Engineering# 701Physics # 830Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)Chemical Engineering101-150Metallurgical Engineering151-200Energy Science & Engineering201-300Mathematics201-300Nanoscience & Nanotechnology201-300Materials Science & Engineering301-400Chemistry401-500
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