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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Harvard University Harvard University	354.6	63.8
2	Stanford University Stanford University	294.5	61.6
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	266.3	36.3
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	260.5	29.7
5	University of Chicago University of Chicago	248.3	28.3
6	Columbia University Columbia University	239.9	41.7
7	Princeton University Princeton University	234.8	63.0
8	University of Toronto University of Toronto	228.0	51.3
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	215.0	20.6
10	Duke University Duke University	214.2	30.6
11	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	213.7	42.0
12	University of Washington University of Washington	208.8	16.3
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	205.7	36.3
14	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	203.6	28.2
15	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	197.1	23.1
16	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	182.7	3.9
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	182.1	44.5
18	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	177.7	16.3
19	University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Wisconsin, Madison	171.5	16.3
20	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	169.7	8.2
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	168.2	19.1
22	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	166.9	16.3
23	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	153.0	19.9
24	Yale University Yale University	151.9	5.3
25	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	148.9	30.4
26	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	147.6	25.8
27	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	144.6	29.6
28	University of Southern California University of Southern California	142.6	19.9
29	The University of Warwick The University of Warwick	141.6	28.2
30	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	141.4	24.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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