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	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	289.0	83.1
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	284.7	50.2
3	University of Toronto University of Toronto	265.9	61.7
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	248.8	44.6
5	University of Alberta University of Alberta	246.2	56.2
6	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	241.3	27.7
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	237.5	5.9
8	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	235.0	70.2
9	University of Montreal University of Montreal	234.5	63.1
10	Stanford University Stanford University	228.9	21.7
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	225.6	43.2
12	Harvard University Harvard University	225.1	0.0
13	Peking University Peking University	219.5	25.1
14	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	212.4	39.2
15	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	211.7	38.3
16	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	211.2	50.2
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	210.2	47.9
18	Southern University of Science and Technology	202.3	70.2
19	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	199.9	5.0
20	Beihang University Beihang University	198.7	18.4
21	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	197.6	32.7
22	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	195.1	38.4
23	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	194.2	31.5
24	New York University New York University	194.0	5.9
25	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	190.6	8.7
26	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	190.4	23.1
27	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	188.3	7.1
28	Southeast University Southeast University	188.2	23.1
29	University of Science and Technology of China	186.3	7.7
30	Sichuan University Sichuan University	185.9	40.0