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	Stanford University Stanford University	395.9	127.8
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	370.6	106.5
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	365.0	122.5
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	363.8	97.6
5	University of Science and Technology of China	347.7	91.8
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	325.6	90.4
7	Peking University Peking University	317.2	100.0
8	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	313.8	87.0
9	Harvard University Harvard University	302.1	76.7
10	Nankai University Nankai University	301.1	73.8
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University	300.3	63.4
12	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	282.5	56.1
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	274.7	71.7
14	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	273.6	83.4
15	Nanjing University Nanjing University	270.3	59.9
16	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	269.2	65.3
17	Tianjin University Tianjin University	267.3	61.0
18	Fudan University Fudan University	266.4	58.3
19	Princeton University Princeton University	264.0	94.2
20	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	262.2	64.6
21	University of Chicago University of Chicago	260.8	87.6
22	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	260.6	70.5
23	Xiamen University Xiamen University	257.4	59.9
24	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	254.8	52.7
25	Jilin University Jilin University	254.2	55.0
26	Columbia University Columbia University	253.0	70.9
27	Soochow University (Suzhou) Soochow University (Suzhou)	250.3	53.2
28	Sichuan University Sichuan University	245.7	47.1
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	240.9	62.8
30	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	239.7	39.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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