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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Hohai University Hohai University	280.2	33.1
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	263.3	60.0
3	Wuhan University Wuhan University	229.0	14.6
4	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	219.0	0.0
5	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	206.1	0.0
6	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	200.8	20.0
7	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	200.0	45.9
8	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	196.2	31.2
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	193.6	33.6
10	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	191.6	0.0
11	Utrecht University Utrecht University	188.1	34.1
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	185.0	20.0
13	University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder	184.2	20.5
14	University of Arizona University of Arizona	182.2	0.0
15	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	180.7	0.0
16	Purdue University, West Lafayette Purdue University, West Lafayette	177.1	46.4
17	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	176.0	11.7
18	Princeton University Princeton University	174.4	32.0
19	Vienna University of Technology Vienna University of Technology	172.9	37.9
20	Nanjing University Nanjing University	172.7	0.0
21	Imperial College London Imperial College London	171.5	46.1
22	Southern University of Science and Technology	168.6	0.0
23	Tianjin University Tianjin University	167.6	0.0
24	University of Bristol University of Bristol	166.6	32.6
25	Sichuan University Sichuan University	166.5	5.9
26	Tongji University Tongji University	164.0	7.2
27	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	163.4	5.9
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	163.3	7.8
29	Cornell University Cornell University	159.9	20.0
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	159.0	14.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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