Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS)

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2016. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.

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World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty The World-Class Faculty category comprises four indicators: International Academic Award Laureates (Laureate), Highly Cited Researchers (HCR), Chief Editors of International Academic Journals (Editor), and International Academic Organization Leadership (Leadership). (Read full Methodology)	World-Class Output The World-Class Output category includes Top Journal Papers (TJ) and International Academic Awards (Award). (Read full Methodology)	High Quality Research The High-Quality Research category includes Q1 Journal Papers (Q1). The number of influential journal publications (Q1) is an important measure of an institution’s research output in the corresponding subject. Q1 refers to the number of papers published by an institution in an Academic Subject within journals ranked in Q1 based on the Journal Impact Factor during the period of 2020-2024. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from Web of Science and InCites. Publications from different Web of Science categories are grouped into relevant Academic Subjects. (Read full Methodology)	Research Impact The Research Impact category includes Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI). Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) is the ratio of the citations received by an institution's published papers to the average citations of papers in the same category, year, and type of journal publication within an Academic Subject during the period of 2020-2024. A CNCI value of 1 represents world-average performance. A CNCI below 1 indicates that the citation times of this group publications are lower than the average level, while a CNCI above 1 signifies that the paper’s citation performance exceeds the average level. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)	International Collaboration The international Collaboration category includes International Collaborated Papers (IC). International collaboration (IC) is an indicator used to evaluate the level of international collaboration in the respective subject between institutions. The ratio of the number of publications that have been found in at least two different countries in addresses of the authors to the total number of publications in the respective subject for an institution during the period of 2020-2024. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)
1	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	265.3	40.0	91.2	84.6	42.5	7.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	249.0	37.9	70.2	88.1	45.4	7.5
3	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	243.1	14.6	80.0	97.4	43.7	7.5
4	Leiden University Leiden University Netherlands	232.1	0.0	79.0	100.0	45.4	7.7
5	Roskilde University Roskilde University Denmark	223.0	42.3	66.8	63.0	44.1	6.9
6	American University American University United States	207.4	41.3	55.2	65.0	39.5	6.5
7	Rutgers University-Newark Rutgers University-Newark United States	202.5	35.6	57.9	60.9	40.9	7.2
8	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong China-Hong Kong	190.1	30.0	57.7	52.5	41.6	8.2
9	Renmin University of China Renmin University of China China	184.0	28.3	52.2	54.9	40.7	7.8
10	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	181.8	40.0	35.4	61.6	37.1	7.9
11	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	178.8	37.9	44.1	55.7	34.7	6.4
12	Georgetown University Georgetown University United States	175.0	9.1	52.2	57.2	50.0	6.5
13	Harvard University Harvard University United States	173.8	20.5	55.1	59.5	32.2	6.6
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	173.1	24.1	33.0	61.6	45.8	8.6
15	University College London University College London United Kingdom	172.8	10.0	47.6	70.1	37.6	7.6
16	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	172.2	34.6	38.5	53.3	38.4	7.3
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	172.1	0.0	44.2	80.9	39.3	7.7
18	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia United States	171.5	22.6	53.0	54.1	36.0	5.7
19	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	171.3	17.9	56.0	56.5	33.1	7.9
20	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida United States	169.7	28.3	43.3	46.4	45.1	6.7
21	Cardiff University Cardiff University United Kingdom	167.5	8.2	54.5	60.2	37.1	7.6
22	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	166.6	9.4	49.2	58.7	43.7	5.7
23	Florida State University Florida State University United States	166.4	0.0	51.5	60.9	47.9	6.1
24	University of York University of York United Kingdom	165.3	21.9	40.8	50.0	46.5	6.1
25	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg Sweden	163.6	0.0	52.2	66.3	38.9	6.2
26	Syracuse University Syracuse University United States	162.9	4.6	50.7	63.7	38.6	5.3
27	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	162.8	12.6	50.5	50.9	40.9	7.9
28	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	162.5	0.0	46.7	65.0	43.2	7.6
28	University of Antwerp University of Antwerp Belgium	162.5	0.0	51.5	66.3	36.7	8.0
30	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	162.4	0.0	49.8	65.0	40.2	7.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.