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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford	314.8	67.0
2	University of Exeter University of Exeter	309.1	80.0
3	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	296.9	79.2
4	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	279.9	49.3
5	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	272.1	38.5
6	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	271.1	49.0
7	University of Florida University of Florida	269.8	52.8
8	University of Helsinki University of Helsinki	269.3	46.0
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	267.0	44.8
10	James Cook University James Cook University	264.6	83.5
11	University of Zurich University of Zurich	261.9	46.3
12	Yale University Yale University	259.3	72.6
13	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	255.6	27.6
14	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier	254.5	0.0
15	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	251.7	40.0
16	University College London University College London	251.5	68.3
17	Cornell University Cornell University	249.7	28.8
18	Harvard University Harvard University	249.4	71.4
19	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	248.3	36.7
20	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	243.1	67.8
21	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen	242.2	25.9
22	University of Washington University of Washington	239.9	42.1
23	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	238.9	53.3
24	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	237.9	13.5
25	Aarhus University Aarhus University	235.8	36.1
26	University of Toronto University of Toronto	232.6	53.2
27	PSL University PSL University	232.2	0.0
28	University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Wisconsin, Madison	232.1	44.8
29	Lancaster University Lancaster University	231.7	65.6
30	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	230.7	18.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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