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	Wuhan University Wuhan University	269.1	40.0
2	Xidian University Xidian University	179.0	3.0
3	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	159.6	11.5
4	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	144.6	0.0
5	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	143.6	0.0
6	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	143.5	0.0
7	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	139.7	11.5
8	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	137.8	0.0
9	Peking University Peking University	137.3	13.5
10	Tongji University Tongji University	136.2	19.8
11	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	135.4	20.0
12	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	133.4	14.6
13	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	132.3	0.0
14	Universit�� Grenoble Alpes Universit�� Grenoble Alpes	130.1	0.0
15	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University	128.1	0.0
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	127.7	0.0
17	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	126.6	0.0
18	National University of Defense Technology	126.4	0.0
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	125.5	0.0
20	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	124.5	19.1
21	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	124.0	0.0
22	Hunan University Hunan University	123.7	11.5
23	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	123.5	0.0
24	Beihang University Beihang University	122.9	0.0
25	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	122.7	0.0
26	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	122.2	0.0
27	University of Twente University of Twente	121.6	10.0
28	Nanjing University Nanjing University	119.6	0.0
29	Jilin University Jilin University	117.6	0.0
30	Central South University Central South University	116.7	0.0