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	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	249.4	2.3
2	Beihang University Beihang University	236.0	3.4
3	Southeast University Southeast University	224.9	0.0
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	223.9	6.1
5	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	217.4	0.0
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	211.6	0.0
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	209.3	2.6
8	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	208.5	4.8
9	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	208.2	0.0
10	Tianjin University Tianjin University	195.9	0.0
11	Chongqing University Chongqing University	194.4	0.0
12	Jilin University Jilin University	191.6	0.0
13	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	188.9	0.0
14	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	181.2	0.0
15	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	180.1	0.0
16	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	178.9	0.0
17	Hunan University Hunan University	178.2	0.0
18	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	176.4	0.0
19	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	176.2	2.6
20	Shandong University Shandong University	175.4	0.0
21	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	175.1	3.9
22	Central South University Central South University	174.7	2.3
23	Tongji University Tongji University	172.6	0.0
24	Wuhan University Wuhan University	172.5	0.0
25	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	166.2	0.0
26	Sichuan University Sichuan University	165.4	9.7
27	Jiangsu University Jiangsu University	163.2	0.0
28	University of Science and Technology of China	160.3	3.4
29	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	158.8	0.0
30	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	156.0	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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