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	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	278.6	51.1
2	University of Vienna University of Vienna	225.6	49.6
3	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	223.9	54.2
4	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	223.1	56.6
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University	201.5	38.7
6	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	199.1	63.2
7	Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio State University, Columbus	197.3	34.1
8	Northwestern University Northwestern University	187.9	38.3
9	University of Munich University of Munich	183.0	39.6
10	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	182.9	49.5
11	University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Wisconsin, Madison	180.7	16.3
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	179.6	37.8
13	University of Zurich University of Zurich	170.9	17.3
14	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	166.8	22.5
15	Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University, Bloomington	166.7	42.4
16	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	166.4	19.0
17	University of Southern California University of Southern California	163.6	34.6
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	162.4	24.5
19	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	160.5	0.0
20	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	153.2	32.2
21	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	152.2	0.0
22	University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder	151.0	40.0
23	University of Oxford University of Oxford	148.6	0.0
24	Loughborough University Loughborough University	148.5	42.4
24	University of Missouri, Columbia University of Missouri, Columbia	148.5	52.2
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven	148.3	12.6
27	Northeastern University (Boston) Northeastern University (Boston)	143.2	45.6
28	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College	142.4	0.0
29	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	140.2	35.1
30	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	139.5	10.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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