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)

500 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	356.1	58.7
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	317.1	63.1
3	Stanford University Stanford University	295.2	39.9
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	269.7	52.0
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	264.4	60.1
6	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	239.6	59.6
7	Princeton University Princeton University	232.3	49.1
8	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	230.4	20.0
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	227.0	18.8
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	217.9	23.5
11	University of Science and Technology of China	214.7	38.9
12	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	214.5	33.0
13	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	207.6	53.8
14	Peking University Peking University	205.1	18.4
15	Wuhan University Wuhan University	200.5	45.8
16	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	198.9	28.3
17	Southeast University Southeast University	196.6	39.7
18	University of Oxford University of Oxford	196.3	23.1
19	Harvard University Harvard University	195.2	32.1
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	194.2	39.2
21	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	192.7	37.7
22	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	191.6	19.2
23	Purdue University, West Lafayette Purdue University, West Lafayette	189.3	41.9
24	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	187.9	31.6
25	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	187.8	50.9
26	Beihang University Beihang University	187.7	13.3
27	Columbia University Columbia University	186.2	4.7
28	Xidian University Xidian University	185.7	17.2
29	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	185.1	24.2
30	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	182.9	19.7