Jinan University ranked 1st in Guangdong Province and 9th in Mainland China in the 2020 Tilburg University Economics Ranking.

Jinan University had an outstanding performance in the Tilburg University Economics Ranking in recent years, up from 23rd in 2015 to 9th in Mainland China.

In terms of the ranking of a 4-year period from 2017 to 2020, Jinan University ranked 1st in Guangdong Province and 11th in Mainland China.

The worldwide ranking for Economics schools of Tilburg University was firstly published in 2010 and it is now recognized as a relatively comprehensive and systematic ranking system to evaluate the research quality in Economics of the universities worldwide. The source of the information used is the ISI Web of Knowledge, covering publications in 79 leading journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance. The ranking is based on a subset of 35 journals in the database.