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	Harvard University Harvard University	450.7	125.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	350.1	97.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	333.1	78.1
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	315.9	78.9
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	307.4	80.7
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	305.7	97.2
7	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	297.1	81.9
8	Yale University Yale University	289.0	84.0
9	University of Washington University of Washington	278.8	63.5
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	274.9	88.4
11	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	260.9	59.3
12	University College London University College London	260.5	65.1
13	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	256.4	67.2
14	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	244.6	68.2
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	243.5	76.9
16	Columbia University Columbia University	242.4	43.6
17	Cornell University Cornell University	228.2	59.1
18	Kyoto University Kyoto University	223.5	73.2
19	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	222.5	58.4
20	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	220.6	53.7
21	University of Alberta University of Alberta	220.4	68.3
22	Institute of Science Tokyo Institute of Science Tokyo	217.4	42.9
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	215.5	62.2
24	Washington University in St Louis Washington University in St Louis	209.5	51.5
25	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	208.8	74.5
26	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	208.0	51.4
27	Princeton University Princeton University	205.5	53.4
27	Universit�� Paris Cit�� Universit�� Paris Cit��	205.5	45.9
29	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	202.6	47.6
30	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	201.4	57.7