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	University of Chicago University of Chicago	238.9	20.0
2	Harvard University Harvard University	204.5	27.8
3	Columbia University Columbia University	193.8	3.0
4	New York University New York University	190.6	25.1
5	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	185.0	4.3
6	Washington University in St Louis Washington University in St Louis	183.8	28.7
7	Yale University Yale University	183.2	25.7
8	London Business School London Business School	175.8	27.5
9	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	174.6	21.8
10	Stanford University Stanford University	173.4	6.4
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	173.2	26.0
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	167.8	25.9
13	The London School of Economics and Political Science	164.7	15.7
14	University of Southern California University of Southern California	162.8	14.0
15	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	162.4	16.7
16	Boston College Boston College	160.9	23.8
17	University of Florida University of Florida	156.0	40.0
18	University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign	155.3	17.9
19	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School	153.9	20.0
20	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	153.6	12.6
21	Renmin University of China Renmin University of China	151.2	0.0
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology	151.0	3.8
23	Peking University Peking University	150.8	8.9
24	Monash University Monash University	148.1	18.5
25	Cornell University Cornell University	145.6	6.3
26	Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm School of Economics	144.5	16.9
27	Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio State University, Columbus	143.7	3.5
27	University of Oxford University of Oxford	143.7	27.8
29	HEC Paris HEC Paris	142.8	13.8
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University	142.1	9.2