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	369.3	120.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	281.2	78.6
3	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	269.0	77.5
4	University College London University College London	265.3	85.1
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	263.6	77.6
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto	249.1	64.0
7	University of Washington University of Washington	232.2	54.4
8	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	230.2	59.9
9	Columbia University Columbia University	225.4	67.8
10	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	224.7	67.2
11	Yale University Yale University	217.5	61.8
12	University of Sydney University of Sydney	216.8	59.1
13	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	207.5	57.0
14	Stanford University Stanford University	205.4	54.6
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London	204.4	36.0
16	Boston University Boston University	200.5	57.2
17	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	199.5	36.7
17	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	199.5	46.9
19	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	199.4	54.5
20	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	192.4	55.0
21	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	192.2	47.2
22	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	191.4	32.8
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	189.9	44.7
24	University of Ottawa University of Ottawa	189.7	54.9
25	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	187.9	49.4
26	King's College London King's College London	183.0	36.6
27	Emory University Emory University	181.1	28.8
27	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	181.1	31.8
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	180.0	31.6
30	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	179.6	44.7