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 2021-2025. 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 2021-2025. 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 2021-2025. Only publications classified as “Article” or “Review” are considered. Data is collected from InCites database. (Read full Methodology)
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	384.9	142.9	89.1	95.6	47.9	9.4
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	370.2	122.5	141.0	46.8	44.4	15.4
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	353.6	105.6	147.6	43.2	42.9	14.2
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States	339.8	90.2	141.2	49.1	44.7	14.6
5	University of Science and Technology of China China	337.8	82.6	100.0	100.0	46.4	8.8
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	323.9	93.8	78.7	98.8	43.2	9.4
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	310.5	81.5	142.5	29.0	44.0	13.5
8	Nankai University Nankai University China	310.1	74.9	93.1	87.9	46.0	8.4
8	Peking University Peking University China	310.1	96.2	81.1	79.0	44.3	9.6
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	304.6	75.2	83.2	92.9	43.6	9.6
11	Harvard University Harvard University United States	284.7	74.7	106.9	45.5	41.6	16.0
12	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	281.8	64.3	115.0	44.7	43.5	14.2
13	Jilin University Jilin University China	277.0	78.8	66.0	82.5	41.9	7.8
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	273.5	74.7	65.9	67.0	47.8	18.2
15	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	268.3	58.4	78.8	79.1	44.0	8.1
16	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	266.8	60.0	70.9	83.2	43.5	9.2
17	Xiamen University Xiamen University China	264.8	69.7	70.4	70.3	44.6	9.8
18	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	263.1	60.6	62.6	89.1	42.9	8.0
19	Princeton University Princeton University United States	261.0	99.6	76.6	28.3	43.8	12.8
20	Fudan University Fudan University China	259.6	51.1	75.2	80.3	44.2	8.8
21	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	258.7	68.5	86.4	47.9	39.6	16.3
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	255.2	91.6	78.0	32.0	40.5	13.0
23	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	254.4	63.8	95.0	50.6	33.1	11.8
24	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	253.5	59.3	64.8	77.6	43.1	8.7
25	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	253.4	73.1	53.6	59.5	48.9	18.3
26	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	252.5	83.2	79.5	46.1	32.5	11.2
27	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	247.7	41.9	65.9	85.9	45.2	8.7
28	Columbia University Columbia University United States	245.1	75.1	81.5	30.3	43.7	14.6
29	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	244.9	59.6	88.8	39.6	43.4	13.5
30	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong China-Hong Kong	239.4	58.4	56.9	62.2	50.0	11.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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