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	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School Denmark	276.1	45.1	98.7	100.0	14.2	18.0
2	Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University, Bloomington United States	274.0	60.0	96.4	88.5	15.0	14.1
3	Monash University Monash University Australia	260.5	49.1	100.0	81.5	13.5	16.3
4	Harvard University Harvard University United States	249.7	39.6	94.3	90.1	12.5	13.1
5	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	240.2	21.2	98.2	91.1	13.2	16.6
6	RMIT University RMIT University Australia	239.6	43.0	88.7	79.3	13.0	15.6
7	University of Birmingham University of Birmingham United Kingdom	237.7	36.5	85.5	83.5	15.2	17.1
8	Pennsylvania State University, University Park United States	236.5	42.3	83.7	81.9	14.5	14.1
9	Hanken School of Economics Hanken School of Economics Finland	229.2	46.1	79.3	71.3	14.8	17.7
10	Audencia Business School Audencia Business School France	223.1	57.8	66.5	63.7	17.3	17.8
11	Northeastern University (Boston) Northeastern University (Boston) United States	222.5	58.7	64.9	65.1	17.3	16.6
12	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	220.1	45.1	68.0	75.3	14.3	17.4
13	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	218.6	37.4	77.1	74.8	15.8	13.6
14	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	216.0	11.6	87.8	86.4	13.9	16.3
15	Deakin University Deakin University Australia	213.8	50.0	72.3	61.4	13.9	16.2
16	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	209.7	0.0	95.3	85.1	13.3	15.9
17	Western University Western University Canada	208.3	33.8	72.3	70.1	14.9	17.2
18	Curtin University Curtin University Australia	207.4	37.9	75.7	63.5	13.6	16.7
19	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	205.2	0.0	81.9	91.2	14.5	17.6
19	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville The University of Tennessee, Knoxville United States	205.2	52.1	65.3	60.6	15.3	11.8
21	University of Groningen University of Groningen Netherlands	205.1	18.0	76.7	76.7	16.1	17.5
22	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong China-Hong Kong	204.6	38.0	69.1	70.1	14.2	13.3
22	The University of Reading The University of Reading United Kingdom	204.6	13.0	80.6	77.5	15.7	17.8
24	Aston University Aston University United Kingdom	204.5	36.9	66.8	67.5	16.4	16.9
25	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	202.9	27.3	71.2	75.1	12.8	16.4
26	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	201.5	13.5	80.9	77.8	14.0	15.2
27	Newcastle University Newcastle University United Kingdom	200.7	0.0	84.6	86.3	14.0	15.9
28	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor United States	200.4	52.7	59.2	63.5	12.2	12.8
29	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	199.9	19.9	77.1	74.2	16.0	12.7
30	BI Norwegian Business School BI Norwegian Business School Norway	199.6	26.1	74.7	68.2	14.2	16.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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