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	Harvard University Harvard University	236.1	20.0
2	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	216.0	54.9
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	206.6	20.0
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	203.4	62.7
5	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	201.9	46.1
6	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	191.5	41.7
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	190.4	45.2
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	186.9	14.8
9	Stanford University Stanford University	181.5	14.4
10	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	180.1	31.0
11	Imperial College London Imperial College London	179.6	40.7
12	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	171.9	42.1
13	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	162.1	40.7
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	161.8	49.8
15	Michigan State University Michigan State University	160.0	60.0
16	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	158.3	46.0
17	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	155.8	20.3
18	Yonsei University Yonsei University	154.1	40.7
19	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	152.7	29.8
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	151.9	16.2
21	Ghent University Ghent University	151.0	18.0
21	Seoul National University Seoul National University	151.0	33.2
23	University College London University College London	150.0	12.9
24	Duke University Duke University	149.7	51.7
25	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	149.2	7.4
26	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	147.3	10.0
27	Fudan University Fudan University	147.0	12.9
28	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	146.8	17.7
29	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	146.6	11.7
29	University of Washington University of Washington	146.6	10.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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