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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Beihang University

China · Asia-Pacific · Gold

#263World rank of 1,038
64.8ICI scoreout of 100
#31National rank, of 169 in China
#66Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
2,002Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
448Company groups worked with (165 on two or more works)

Beihang University is ranked #263 of 1,038, with Gold standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (98): 60 of its company groups are sustained partners (five or more joint works in three or more of the five years). It is held back most by breadth (8): partners concentrated in a few research fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #416 of 1,195, Silver standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
59

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 2,002 verified works against about 1,823 expected for its fields (1.10 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
98

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 60 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
86

The size of its industry network: company groups on two or more works, sustained partnerships, and its place in the worldwide network of universities and companies. 165 company groups on two or more joint works; 60 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
8

How varied its partners are, judged by each company's main research field. Measured across the main research fields of all the company groups it worked with.

Each pillar is a percentile among the 1,038 ranked universities: a value of 80 means a higher value than about 80 in every 100 of them. The ICI score (64.8) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 263 of 1,038 overall; 31 of 169 in China; 66 of 343 in Asia-Pacific. Standing bands: Platinum for ranks 1 to 100, Gold 101 to 300, Silver 301 to 600. How the index is built →

In numbers

The evidence behind the position

5.0%of its 39,790 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.10Industry co-authorship rate: 1.10 times what its mix of research fields would predict (2,002 verified works; about 1,823 expected)
60sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In China

31 of 169 ranked universities in China

  1. #29 China University of Geosciences world #259, score 65.0
  2. #30 Hohai University world #262, score 64.9
  3. #31 Beihang University world #263, score 64.8
  4. #32 South China University of Technology world #267, score 64.5
  5. #33 Central South University world #274, score 64.0

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 66 of 343 →

Where it works with industry

Sector strengths

Verified industry works by sector, with its position in each sector ranking. A university is ranked in a sector once it has at least 20 verified works there; sectors with fewer than 50 eligible universities are provisional.

Strongest sector positions

#6 of 292Artificial Intelligence237 verified works in the sector
#22 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology335.5 verified works in the sector
#1 of 17Aerospace and Aviation (provisional: fewer than 50 universities eligible)113 verified works in the sector
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
335.5#22 of 481
Artificial Intelligence
237#6 of 292
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
190#15 of 201
Aerospace and Aviation
113#1 of 17 provisional
Next-Generation Communications
83.5#17 of 188
Clean Energy Transition
81#61 of 295
Automotive and Mobility
74#10 of 72
Batteries and Energy Storage
67#16 of 126
Software, Cloud and Data
64#25 of 167
Built Environment and Infrastructure
45.5#93 of 215
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
38.5#175 of 373
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
22.5ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)
Medical Technology and Digital Health
21.5#312 of 323
Chemicals, Process and Resources
18under 20 works
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
15under 20 works
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
14.5under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
13.5under 20 works
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
11.5under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
6under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
2under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
2under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
542.5counted in the overall index

1,459.5 of its 2,002 verified industry works fall within the 21 sectors. The rest have research topics that belong to no industry sector (basic science, for example) or are consortium papers with 100 or more authors, which the sector indices leave out; all of them count fully in the overall index.

Who it works with

Company partners, 2021 to 2025

Beihang University co-authored verified work with 448 company groups, consortium papers aside: 165 of them on two or more works, and 60 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 448 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
Aero Engine Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering2985 of 5
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering221.55 of 5
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering1085 of 5
China Electronics Technology Group CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering80.55 of 5
China MobileSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering63.55 of 5
State Grid Corporation of ChinaSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering545 of 5
Huawei TechnologiesChinaComputer Science49.55 of 5
China Aerospace Science and Industry CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering41.55 of 5
BaiduChinaComputer Science385 of 5
Beijing Institute of Power MachinerySTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering37.55 of 5
TencentChinaComputer Science34.55 of 5
China North Industries Group CorporationSTATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering32.55 of 5

A company group brings together a company's subsidiaries and research labs under one name. A work counts half when its only company author also holds a post at this university. Consortium papers with 100 or more authors are left out of this table.

Examples of its work with industry

Most-cited verified joint works

Its most-cited verified works with 30 or fewer authors, leaving out guidelines and consensus statements. Citation counts are those of the open scholarly record at harvest. Each title links to the work.

Over time

Verified industry works by year

3062021
370.52022
3502023
4762024
499.52025

2025 is not yet complete: papers published late in the year are still being added to the open record, and coverage may not be equally complete for every university, so compare years with care. A work counts half when its only company author also holds a post at the university, so some totals end in .5.

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored)

Publicly funded research projects with companies

European Union: 2 Horizon projects with company partners

Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects starting 2021-2025 in which this university and at least one company take part (5 distinct companies). Company partners include: Apa-it Informations Technologie GmbH, Picadvanced, SA, Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija d.o.o., Zeta Alpha Vector B.v..

  • OMINO Overcoming Multilevel INformation Overload 2023, 3 companies
  • Micro-FloTec Microscale enabled advanced flow and heat transfer technologies featuring high performance and low power consumption 2023, 2 companies

Shown for context from the public grant registries; they do not enter the score in Edition 1. Comparable open registries of company partners exist for the European Union and the United Kingdom but not yet for most other research systems, and in some countries national research organisations take part on behalf of university laboratories, so these counts are not comparable between countries.

Evidence checked

2,476 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 1,023 of 3,499 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 741 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 72 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 60 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 33 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 31 only inside the university's own affiliation text
  • 13 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Vanke School of Public Health and a street address
  • 73 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Beihang University ranks #416 of 1,195, with Silver standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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