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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Harvard University Harvard University	183.2	30.0
2	Yale University Yale University	168.6	12.9
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	165.7	34.0
4	New York University New York University	161.9	36.0
4	University of Chicago University of Chicago	161.9	36.7
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	157.1	60.0
7	Columbia University Columbia University	154.2	29.2
8	University of Oxford University of Oxford	144.6	39.4
9	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	134.7	18.2
10	Stanford University Stanford University	131.5	14.6
11	University College London University College London	127.6	35.8
12	Northwestern University Northwestern University	127.1	34.4
13	Georgetown University Georgetown University	125.2	19.0
14	Duke University Duke University	125.1	14.6
15	Arizona State University Arizona State University	123.7	48.3
16	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	121.1	27.1
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	116.2	11.3
18	University of Virginia University of Virginia	115.6	5.3
19	Florida State University Florida State University	114.7	16.0
20	University of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati	114.1	30.8
21	Cornell University Cornell University	113.7	29.2
22	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	112.4	29.6
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto	112.4	28.5
24	University of Washington University of Washington	111.1	29.5
25	Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University	109.0	28.5
25	Utrecht University Utrecht University	109.0	32.4
27	Leiden University Leiden University	107.9	20.9
28	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	107.0	18.0
29	Michigan State University Michigan State University	106.9	20.1
30	George Mason University George Mason University	106.6	19.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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