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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	285.3	103.1
2	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	233.3	57.5
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	223.4	40.5
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	221.3	75.0
5	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	216.1	41.4
6	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	215.4	69.0
7	Beihang University Beihang University	215.3	57.6
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	204.1	26.5
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	203.1	33.4
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	202.1	42.9
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	200.0	40.0
12	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	196.2	42.6
13	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	187.8	26.4
14	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	184.7	30.8
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	181.4	46.4
16	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	180.5	29.3
17	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	175.7	58.0
18	Tianjin University Tianjin University	172.8	27.0
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	172.5	36.7
20	University of Nottingham University of Nottingham	172.2	58.9
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	172.2	17.4
22	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	171.2	43.7
22	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	171.2	50.8
24	Rice University Rice University	167.7	60.4
25	New York University New York University	166.4	29.4
25	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	166.4	30.6
27	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	165.9	26.7
28	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	165.1	50.9
29	NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology	163.8	36.9
30	University of Science and Technology of China	161.8	7.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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