2025 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

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 2017. 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.(See full Methodology)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	421.0	110.1
2	Princeton University Princeton University	408.0	96.8
3	Stanford University Stanford University	406.2	147.2
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	402.9	121.6
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	376.2	105.5
6	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	369.1	79.6
7	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	351.8	67.5
8	Harvard University Harvard University	350.8	90.9
9	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	345.2	106.6
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	345.1	76.2
11	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	344.7	104.6
12	Peking University Peking University	315.8	80.0
13	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	314.4	71.3
14	Columbia University Columbia University	307.6	112.4
15	University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder	306.8	71.2
16	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	304.2	81.1
17	University of Science and Technology of China	300.2	60.9
18	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	297.0	105.7
19	University of Chicago University of Chicago	290.6	45.9
20	PSL University PSL University	284.4	25.1
21	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	284.2	47.9
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	282.9	78.2
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	280.5	77.9
24	University of Washington University of Washington	276.6	62.9
25	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	275.6	50.3
26	University of Geneva University of Geneva	267.9	45.6
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto	267.6	51.8
28	The Australian National University The Australian National University	263.5	83.1
29	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	260.0	21.8
30	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	259.0	45.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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