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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	World-Class Faculty World-Class Output High Quality Research Research Impact International Collaboration
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	270.0	81.4
2	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	258.0	55.6
3	Imperial College London Imperial College London	257.7	60.0
4	Southeast University Southeast University	253.7	40.0
5	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	241.0	23.1
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	237.5	23.1
7	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	236.1	23.1
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	232.0	0.0
9	Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology	228.1	81.4
10	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	226.1	32.7
11	Beihang University Beihang University	223.4	23.1
12	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	220.0	62.9
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto	217.5	58.9
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	217.4	23.1
15	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	212.5	43.1
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	212.2	6.1
17	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	206.2	0.0
18	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	204.1	40.0
19	Tongji University Tongji University	203.7	23.1
20	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	198.2	51.6
21	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	196.4	58.6
22	University of Alberta University of Alberta	190.3	20.7
23	Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology	189.1	41.4
24	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	186.1	0.0
25	Chongqing University Chongqing University	185.3	23.1
26	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications	184.5	32.7
27	Stanford University Stanford University	184.2	40.0
28	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	183.1	23.1
29	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	178.0	9.8
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	177.8	0.0