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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Harvard University Harvard University	358.8	98.8
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	285.3	74.9
3	University College London University College London	274.2	65.6
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	259.4	63.5
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	243.9	68.9
6	Stanford University Stanford University	241.7	64.1
7	Washington University in St Louis Washington University in St Louis	225.0	66.0
8	Columbia University Columbia University	221.8	42.7
9	University of Toronto University of Toronto	217.4	54.0
10	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	212.1	45.4
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	212.0	54.6
12	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	209.8	66.8
13	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	206.9	49.6
14	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	205.9	65.3
15	Yale University Yale University	205.7	46.0
16	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Minnesota	202.9	67.4
17	Duke University Duke University	199.6	62.5
18	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	198.6	39.9
19	Cornell University Cornell University	197.4	49.0
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London	196.9	40.6
21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	195.6	16.6
22	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	194.3	61.8
23	King's College London King's College London	193.3	41.6
24	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	189.0	27.5
25	McGill University McGill University	188.7	47.8
26	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	186.8	50.8
27	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	185.0	28.2
28	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	182.9	26.3
29	University of Munich University of Munich	181.8	37.9
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	180.9	51.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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