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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	271.9	20.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	255.9	40.6
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	227.5	15.8
4	Harvard University Harvard University	198.6	40.0
5	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	198.5	11.5
6	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	178.9	0.0
7	Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna	177.3	16.8
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	177.1	8.1
9	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	175.7	0.0
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	174.8	18.4
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	168.4	0.0
12	Peking University Peking University	168.0	32.7
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	167.7	0.0
14	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	166.0	11.5
15	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	160.4	14.0
16	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	159.8	5.3
17	Seoul National University Seoul National University	157.1	4.3
18	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	156.6	8.1
19	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	155.7	18.9
20	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	155.2	0.0
21	King's College London King's College London	154.7	40.0
22	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	154.6	0.0
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	154.5	0.0
24	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	154.1	8.1
25	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	152.7	0.0
26	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	151.2	0.0
27	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	150.8	0.0
28	Beihang University Beihang University	150.4	0.0
29	University of Pisa University of Pisa	149.5	32.9
30	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	149.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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