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	400.3	147.3
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	357.8	111.2
3	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	338.2	103.1
4	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	301.4	93.8
5	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	291.3	81.2
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	289.9	57.9
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	280.5	85.9
8	Duke University Duke University	275.2	82.8
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	272.9	69.5
10	Imperial College London Imperial College London	271.2	69.4
11	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	268.4	70.0
12	Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Health & Science University	263.2	82.0
13	University of Washington University of Washington	262.7	61.0
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	262.5	83.4
15	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	261.1	87.7
16	Emory University Emory University	257.2	61.6
17	University College London University College London	257.1	83.0
18	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	254.0	81.9
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	247.1	60.3
20	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Minnesota	246.2	92.2
21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	234.0	56.6
22	Stanford University Stanford University	226.4	72.7
23	Columbia University Columbia University	223.5	76.9
24	King's College London King's College London	220.5	74.4
25	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	218.7	72.8
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	217.5	84.1
27	University of Leicester University of Leicester	214.7	54.4
28	Yale University Yale University	214.5	67.2
29	Northwestern University Northwestern University	209.1	67.5
30	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	204.9	62.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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