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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	213.7	33.7
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	210.0	48.2
3	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	208.7	56.4
4	Harvard University Harvard University	207.8	35.2
5	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	204.8	50.4
6	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School	204.4	70.7
7	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	201.4	24.7
8	Cornell University Cornell University	199.5	58.0
9	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	192.5	40.6
10	Arizona State University Arizona State University	187.3	40.8
11	Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio State University, Columbus	187.2	61.0
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	186.8	64.2
13	INSEAD INSEAD	185.5	31.9
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	185.3	45.4
15	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	184.2	23.8
16	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	183.4	34.2
17	University of Southern California University of Southern California	182.2	44.4
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	180.4	13.1
19	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	177.6	52.3
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London	175.8	59.2
21	University of Florida University of Florida	175.6	34.2
22	Michigan State University Michigan State University	175.2	42.8
23	Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University, Bloomington	174.7	28.9
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	173.6	26.4
25	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	173.1	43.0
26	Columbia University Columbia University	171.2	27.8
27	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	170.4	44.8
28	University of Liverpool University of Liverpool	169.4	61.1
29	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	168.7	43.9
30	University College London University College London	168.3	41.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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