Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS)

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 2016. 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.

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World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty The World-Class Faculty category comprises four indicators: International Academic Award Laureates (Laureate), Highly Cited Researchers (HCR), Chief Editors of International Academic Journals (Editor), and International Academic Organization Leadership (Leadership). (Read full Methodology)	World-Class Output The World-Class Output category includes Top Journal Papers (TJ) and International Academic Awards (Award). (Read full Methodology)	High Quality Research The High-Quality Research category includes Q1 Journal Papers (Q1). The number of influential journal publications (Q1) is an important measure of an institution’s research output in the corresponding subject. Q1 refers to the number of papers published by an institution in an Academic Subject within journals ranked in Q1 based on the Journal Impact Factor during the period of 2020-2024. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from Web of Science and InCites. Publications from different Web of Science categories are grouped into relevant Academic Subjects. (Read full Methodology)	Research Impact The Research Impact category includes Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI). Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) is the ratio of the citations received by an institution's published papers to the average citations of papers in the same category, year, and type of journal publication within an Academic Subject during the period of 2020-2024. A CNCI value of 1 represents world-average performance. A CNCI below 1 indicates that the citation times of this group publications are lower than the average level, while a CNCI above 1 signifies that the paper’s citation performance exceeds the average level. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)	International Collaboration The international Collaboration category includes International Collaborated Papers (IC). International collaboration (IC) is an indicator used to evaluate the level of international collaboration in the respective subject between institutions. The ratio of the number of publications that have been found in at least two different countries in addresses of the authors to the total number of publications in the respective subject for an institution during the period of 2020-2024. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	369.3	120.0	100.0	100.0	35.2	14.1
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	281.2	78.6	78.8	75.7	34.2	13.9
3	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine United Kingdom	269.0	77.5	70.1	64.0	38.7	18.8
4	University College London University College London United Kingdom	265.3	85.1	64.9	61.9	37.3	16.0
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	263.6	77.6	64.5	62.7	41.4	17.5
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	249.1	64.0	68.8	69.2	31.9	15.2
7	University of Washington University of Washington United States	232.2	54.4	63.3	64.2	37.1	13.3
8	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	230.2	59.9	60.2	63.5	33.9	12.7
9	Columbia University Columbia University United States	225.4	67.8	54.5	55.4	34.7	12.9
10	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	224.7	67.2	56.6	56.8	31.8	12.4
11	Yale University Yale University United States	217.5	61.8	52.4	54.9	35.7	12.7
12	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	216.8	59.1	55.1	55.3	33.1	14.3
13	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor United States	207.5	57.0	51.6	53.6	34.5	10.9
14	Stanford University Stanford University United States	205.4	54.6	48.0	51.5	38.8	12.6
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	204.4	36.0	57.2	53.6	40.3	17.3
16	Boston University Boston University United States	200.5	57.2	48.2	48.7	34.3	12.1
17	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	199.5	36.7	56.4	57.4	33.9	15.1
17	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	199.5	46.9	51.8	51.3	34.1	15.4
19	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	199.4	54.5	48.7	49.9	34.8	11.6
20	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong China-Hong Kong	192.4	55.0	40.5	39.3	42.9	14.8
21	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	192.2	47.2	47.6	45.2	36.9	15.3
22	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute Sweden	191.4	32.8	55.7	51.6	34.1	17.1
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	189.9	44.7	44.7	45.2	38.3	16.9
24	University of Ottawa University of Ottawa Canada	189.7	54.9	42.3	41.3	36.3	14.8
25	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	187.9	49.4	42.5	47.9	33.5	14.7
26	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	183.0	36.6	48.1	45.8	36.6	15.9
27	Emory University Emory University United States	181.1	28.8	52.0	52.0	36.2	12.1
27	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	181.1	31.8	51.0	48.5	33.7	16.2
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	180.0	31.6	49.1	48.5	36.3	14.6
30	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	179.6	44.7	40.1	38.5	39.8	16.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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