Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS)

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 2016. 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.

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World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty The World-Class Faculty category comprises four indicators: International Academic Award Laureates (Laureate), Highly Cited Researchers (HCR), Chief Editors of International Academic Journals (Editor), and International Academic Organization Leadership (Leadership). (Read full Methodology)	World-Class Output The World-Class Output category includes Top Journal Papers (TJ) and International Academic Awards (Award). (Read full Methodology)	High Quality Research The High-Quality Research category includes Q1 Journal Papers (Q1). The number of influential journal publications (Q1) is an important measure of an institution’s research output in the corresponding subject. Q1 refers to the number of papers published by an institution in an Academic Subject within journals ranked in Q1 based on the Journal Impact Factor during the period of 2020-2024. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from Web of Science and InCites. Publications from different Web of Science categories are grouped into relevant Academic Subjects. (Read full Methodology)	Research Impact The Research Impact category includes Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI). Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) is the ratio of the citations received by an institution's published papers to the average citations of papers in the same category, year, and type of journal publication within an Academic Subject during the period of 2020-2024. A CNCI value of 1 represents world-average performance. A CNCI below 1 indicates that the citation times of this group publications are lower than the average level, while a CNCI above 1 signifies that the paper’s citation performance exceeds the average level. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)	International Collaboration The international Collaboration category includes International Collaborated Papers (IC). International collaboration (IC) is an indicator used to evaluate the level of international collaboration in the respective subject between institutions. The ratio of the number of publications that have been found in at least two different countries in addresses of the authors to the total number of publications in the respective subject for an institution during the period of 2020-2024. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	236.1	20.0	60.0	90.4	50.0	15.7
2	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	216.0	54.9	22.1	93.7	36.4	8.9
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States	206.6	20.0	55.8	66.3	50.0	14.6
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	203.4	62.7	29.7	46.2	50.0	14.8
5	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	201.9	46.1	33.4	65.0	40.1	17.2
6	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University China	191.5	41.7	32.5	74.5	34.4	8.5
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	190.4	45.2	25.0	69.5	40.4	10.2
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	186.9	14.8	26.9	100.0	36.0	9.1
9	Stanford University Stanford University United States	181.5	14.4	44.7	58.2	50.0	14.3
10	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	180.1	31.0	33.1	56.5	44.5	14.9
11	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	179.6	40.7	28.3	53.7	40.2	16.6
12	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	171.9	42.1	26.5	44.6	44.5	14.2
13	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University China	162.1	40.7	10.8	59.6	39.8	11.3
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	161.8	49.8	18.8	44.0	35.2	14.0
15	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	160.0	60.0	15.9	37.5	32.5	14.1
16	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	158.3	46.0	21.7	42.7	37.0	11.0
17	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	155.8	20.3	31.0	41.0	50.0	13.5
18	Yonsei University Yonsei University South Korea	154.1	40.7	13.3	50.4	36.6	13.2
19	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	152.7	29.8	20.3	44.9	40.6	17.2
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	151.9	16.2	25.8	51.0	42.4	16.6
21	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	151.0	18.0	29.0	52.8	34.8	16.4
21	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	151.0	33.2	18.2	52.8	36.0	10.7
23	University College London University College London United Kingdom	150.0	12.9	25.8	55.4	39.1	16.8
24	Duke University Duke University United States	149.7	51.7	17.7	34.5	33.6	12.3
25	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	149.2	7.4	30.0	51.0	44.2	16.6
26	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	147.3	10.0	23.4	49.9	46.6	17.4
27	Fudan University Fudan University China	147.0	12.9	16.6	72.6	35.6	9.3
28	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	146.8	17.7	12.5	66.4	39.4	10.8
29	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	146.6	11.7	26.5	51.6	42.6	14.1
29	University of Washington University of Washington United States	146.6	10.0	29.7	50.2	42.9	13.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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