On March 9th, Times Higher Education released the Emerging Economies University Rankings 2021, with 606 universities from 48 countries and regions on thelist, and China University of Petroleum-Beijing (CUP) ranked 105th in the world and 38th in China.

CUP won the highest total score since it was listed in 2016. It scored 96.7 points in the index of "industry income", and continued to maintain anadvanced development trend in other aspects.

Since 2014, the Times Higher Education Rankings of Universities in Emerging Economies has been published once a year, comparing universities in advanced emerging economies, sub-emerging economies and frontier economies in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series. Being similar to the ranking of universities in the world, the ranking of universities in emerging economies isevaluated by 13 elaborately calibrated performance indicators, but the weight allocation has been adjusted to reflect the characteristics of universities in emerging economies.