91��Ƶ's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

2025?Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

91��Ƶ first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the 91��Ƶ'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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	University of Washington University of Washington	315.0	48.3
2	Columbia University Columbia University	289.8	57.9
3	Princeton University Princeton University	289.3	72.1
4	University of Colorado Boulder University of Colorado Boulder	288.6	47.3
5	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	268.2	34.5
6	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	264.5	56.4
7	Colorado State University Colorado State University	257.1	47.3
8	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	254.9	9.6
9	Pennsylvania State University, University Park	236.2	54.1
10	The University of Reading The University of Reading	232.6	29.6
11	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	222.5	43.7
12	Nanjing University Nanjing University	221.7	40.2
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	219.3	31.0
14	Peking University Peking University	217.0	44.1
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	217.0	28.4
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	215.6	54.7
17	Harvard University Harvard University	213.2	40.6
18	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	211.9	22.7
19	University of Exeter University of Exeter	205.5	46.7
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	204.2	24.8
21	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	204.0	22.4
22	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	203.7	21.9
23	University of Oxford University of Oxford	203.5	26.4
24	Stanford University Stanford University	202.6	43.2
25	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	196.7	56.0
26	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	196.0	25.3
27	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	195.8	23.9
27	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	195.8	25.3
29	Cornell University Cornell University	193.6	43.2
30	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	190.7	11.5