Among the C9, an alliance of nine prestigious universities hailed as China’s Ivy League, six are ranked in the world’s top 200 universities: Tsinghua University (49), Peking University (52), Fudan University (103), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (153), University of Science and Technology of China (154), Nanjing University (168), Zhejiang University (247), Xi’an Jiaotong University (401-500), and the Harbin Institute of Technology (not ranked).