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	385.0	150.0
2	Northwestern University Northwestern University	366.9	118.2
3	Harvard University Harvard University	321.2	109.8
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	320.9	96.2
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	314.8	88.7
6	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	306.6	107.0
7	Stanford University Stanford University	300.5	95.3
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	297.5	104.7
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	287.1	68.2
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	281.1	57.2
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	278.1	85.3
12	University of Science and Technology of China	277.1	51.0
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	275.5	103.6
14	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	274.3	81.3
15	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	273.9	76.2
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	272.8	78.0
17	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	266.4	84.6
17	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	266.4	75.6
19	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	266.2	71.4
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	265.0	56.9
21	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	263.6	100.4
22	Fudan University Fudan University	256.4	65.0
23	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	255.9	62.8
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	254.8	92.5
25	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	250.0	53.3
26	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	248.3	47.4
27	Peking University Peking University	241.3	43.8
28	Soochow University (Suzhou) Soochow University (Suzhou)	240.5	48.3
29	Jilin University Jilin University	234.9	56.1
30	Sichuan University Sichuan University	234.2	39.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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