USAMV Cluj-Napoca, two appearances in the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025

The Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025 was published on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, and our university is listed in the Engineering field / Food Science and Technology subfield – places 151-200, and in the Life Sciences field / Subfield Agricultural Sciences – places 401-500: https://tinyurl.com/5sw8n9xk.

Twenty-two universities from Romania were evaluated, but only ten of them were ranked. Romanian universities ranked by number of appearances in the Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025:

• Two appearances: Babeș-Bolyai University, University of Bucharest, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, USAMV Cluj-Napoca, UMF Carol Davila;
• Newcomers: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, University of Craiova, Transylvania University of Brașov, University of Oradea, ASE Bucharest.

The Shanghai World University Ranking by Academic Subjects was first introduced in 2009 and was officially renamed the Shanghai Ranking-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates universities worldwide in 57 disciplines 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 approximately 20,000 study units from approximately 2,000 universities in approximately 100 countries and regions.

For the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025, approximately 2,000 universities from 92 countries and regions were analysed for the 57 fields evaluated by GRAS.