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	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor United States	336.8	80.0	121.6	77.5	40.6	17.0
2	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	310.0	86.7	105.4	66.7	34.5	16.6
3	University of Bern University of Bern Switzerland	289.7	58.6	73.4	95.4	42.8	19.5
4	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	285.8	43.9	94.5	100.0	38.5	8.9
5	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	261.3	37.0	107.4	61.4	39.8	15.8
6	University of Washington University of Washington United States	259.5	60.5	75.3	62.6	45.5	15.7
7	Harvard University Harvard University United States	257.8	30.6	94.0	78.5	38.2	16.4
8	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	254.7	42.0	72.1	96.8	30.2	13.7
9	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	251.0	59.6	104.0	39.9	34.3	13.2
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	242.6	58.0	91.5	38.5	40.1	14.5
11	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong China-Hong Kong	242.3	21.4	86.0	78.1	41.9	14.8
12	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	241.6	51.2	93.9	45.3	37.1	14.1
13	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	234.1	28.0	101.4	49.3	38.8	16.6
14	Osaka University Osaka University Japan	234.0	54.8	85.6	47.3	34.6	11.7
15	University of Geneva University of Geneva Switzerland	221.5	45.5	60.6	53.7	43.7	17.9
16	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	221.0	36.9	68.3	54.6	42.7	18.5
17	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York United States	218.3	43.9	84.1	39.1	36.4	14.9
18	Adelaide University Adelaide University Australia	214.5	48.6	78.4	39.2	34.8	13.6
19	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	212.4	39.3	63.4	53.5	39.0	17.1
20	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	211.9	23.1	56.5	75.7	38.4	18.2
21	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	209.4	36.5	36.3	85.7	41.4	9.6
22	University of Iowa University of Iowa United States	206.8	33.3	77.3	46.2	34.7	15.2
23	Institute of Science Tokyo Institute of Science Tokyo Japan	205.5	30.8	65.1	63.9	31.8	13.9
24	Newcastle University Newcastle University United Kingdom	204.7	52.6	67.4	31.3	39.9	13.5
25	University of Otago University of Otago New Zealand	204.6	47.8	69.4	38.5	31.7	17.2
26	University of Turku University of Turku Finland	204.0	30.1	83.7	38.8	35.4	15.9
27	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	199.7	29.3	76.0	44.8	35.0	14.7
28	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	197.9	40.5	51.1	49.0	42.5	14.8
29	University of Campinas University of Campinas Brazil	196.8	23.5	56.4	72.0	31.0	13.8
30	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	196.7	39.8	68.5	39.3	34.3	14.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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