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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	196.9	18.0
2	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	192.4	9.2
3	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	186.1	40.0
4	Southeast University Southeast University	181.2	2.0
5	Tongji University Tongji University	173.5	4.0
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	172.3	2.2
7	Beihang University Beihang University	166.3	13.0
8	University of Sydney University of Sydney	154.1	23.7
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	151.0	2.2
10	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	148.6	17.9
11	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	148.4	8.4
12	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	147.7	12.3
13	University College London University College London	142.2	29.2
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	141.4	2.5
15	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	135.7	2.5
16	Central South University Central South University	132.3	12.0
17	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	131.0	2.2
18	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	129.5	0.0
19	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida	129.2	26.2
20	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	128.1	2.6
21	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	127.9	11.8
21	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	127.9	34.7
23	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	126.3	8.5
24	University of South Florida University of South Florida	123.4	22.9
25	Xidian University Xidian University	122.5	0.0
26	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	122.0	0.0
27	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	121.3	0.0
27	University of Leeds University of Leeds	121.3	9.1
29	Chang'an University Chang'an University	120.7	8.8
30	Ghent University Ghent University	120.5	32.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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