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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	352.1	89.5
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	286.8	67.7
3	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	260.6	47.4
4	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	244.9	48.6
5	Imperial College London Imperial College London	242.7	55.3
6	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	238.3	70.7
7	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	225.4	42.5
8	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	220.3	42.4
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	209.8	44.6
10	Tianjin University Tianjin University	205.1	15.9
11	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	201.4	20.0
12	University of Science and Technology of China	201.0	0.0
13	Chongqing University Chongqing University	200.7	31.2
14	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	199.9	11.4
15	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	199.4	4.5
16	Stanford University Stanford University	197.0	20.0
17	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	195.5	32.1
18	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	185.3	9.8
19	University of Houston University of Houston	181.9	74.1
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	180.7	20.0
21	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	180.6	48.6
22	Peking University Peking University	180.4	10.9
23	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	177.6	19.0
24	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	177.4	53.7
25	University of Oxford University of Oxford	177.1	22.1
26	Central South University Central South University	175.7	0.0
27	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	175.2	10.4
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	174.9	14.1
29	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	173.6	0.0
30	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	173.4	60.0