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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	245.9	52.6	40.0	100.0	42.0	11.2
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	235.3	60.6	87.5	29.7	41.6	15.8
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States	234.5	44.4	98.3	36.5	39.9	15.3
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	210.3	24.1	98.4	29.2	44.3	14.4
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	203.9	33.6	24.3	79.5	48.0	18.4
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	199.4	31.3	30.4	87.6	38.7	11.4
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	199.2	40.0	74.9	27.7	41.8	14.8
8	Southeast University Southeast University China	193.9	17.1	30.4	95.1	39.7	11.6
9	North Carolina State University at Raleigh United States	186.7	42.8	64.9	29.3	36.8	13.0
10	Xidian University Xidian University China	184.4	18.6	26.0	91.2	38.3	10.4
11	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	181.2	33.0	15.9	80.7	41.7	9.9
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	173.6	23.1	15.9	85.4	39.2	10.0
13	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	173.1	29.9	33.1	47.3	45.2	17.6
14	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	168.8	18.9	13.0	87.8	38.1	11.0
15	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign United States	168.3	21.5	60.5	33.7	38.5	14.1
16	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	167.6	29.7	15.9	71.3	40.2	10.5
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	167.6	16.1	20.5	81.5	38.3	11.3
18	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	167.0	30.1	20.5	55.8	41.9	18.6
19	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	166.2	15.0	66.0	35.8	36.5	13.0
20	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	161.4	20.8	15.9	77.1	37.4	10.3
21	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	160.0	18.6	15.9	75.6	39.2	10.7
22	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	159.7	23.0	22.5	58.9	43.4	11.9
23	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	159.1	23.5	20.5	60.3	42.5	12.3
24	Beihang University Beihang University China	158.2	12.6	18.4	77.5	39.5	10.2
25	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	155.7	16.3	20.5	52.0	48.6	18.3
26	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	153.9	21.2	29.0	47.3	43.9	12.5
27	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	147.2	21.2	24.3	41.1	43.8	16.8
28	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	144.4	3.1	55.9	20.8	50.0	14.7
29	Nanjing University of Science & Technology China	144.1	13.2	22.5	57.5	40.3	10.6
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	143.5	0.0	22.5	73.0	37.9	10.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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