World University Rankings by Subject 2025: table information

Browse the full results of the World University Rankings by Subject 2025

The data shown under key statistics are those provided by the university itself in its submission to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. They represent data from the 2022 academic year, and may vary from subsequent or earlier years.

Students
This is the number of full-time equivalent students at the university.

Student-to-staff ratio
This is the ratio of full-time equivalent students to the number of academic staff – those involved in teaching or research.

International students
The percentage of students originating from outside the country in which the university is located.

Female-to-male ratio
The ratio of female to male students at the university.

Subject filter
Our subject rankings include tables for 11 separate subjects. Please note that the subject filter on the rankings tables is not a subject ranking. This filter will show you the universities ranked overall that offer programmes in more granular subjects. 

Banded institutions
Precise ranks and overall scores are shown for the institutions ranked in the top 100. We then display banded ranks and overall scores for institutions in the rest of the table because the difference between their scores is not statistically significant. Precise pillar scores are displayed for each ranked institution.

Institutions that are ranked within bands are listed in alphabetical order. All the universities ranked within the same band have the same position. For instance, if the top two universities in country A are ranked in the same band (201-250), they are both ranked joint first in Country A.

Reporter institutions
Universities at the bottom of the table that are listed as having “reporter” status provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank. Institutions have the option to opt out of being displayed as reporters should they not meet the eligibility criteria.

Editor’s note: January 2025

After the publication of the World University Rankings 2025, an error was discovered in the bibliometric data, affecting City University of Hong Kong’s considered citations for one of the relevant years. This matter was reviewed under our corrections policy, and we agreed to recalculate the research quality metrics for the institution. The university’s corrected position in the overall World University Rankings is 78 (previously joint position 80).

Two additional institutions informed us that they had submitted and signed off incorrect data. These matters were reviewed under our corrections policy, and we agreed, at our discretion, to re-calculate those universities’ scores based on a corrected data submission: Indian Institute of Science informed us that it had submitted and signed off an incorrect number of research staffdat the overall and subject level in THE’s data portal. The university’s corrected position in the overall World University Rankings is 201-250 (previously joint 251-300). Technion Israel Institute of Technology informed us that, further to incorrectly assuming the currency used for the financial data was USD (US Dollars) instead of ILS (Israeli Shekels), submitted and signed off an incorrect value for their income data at the overall and subject level in THE’s data portal.  The university’s corrected position in the overall World University Rankings is 301-350 (previously 401-500).

As per THE’s rankings correction policy, the amendment made only affects the university in question. We do not rerun the complete ranking. All other universities maintain their original rank.

After the publication of the World University Rankings 2025, two institutions that had initially agreed to be displayed as “reporter” institutions informed us they had in fact decided to opt out. We have now removed them from the reporter list.

THE is committed to transparency and accountability across all of its rankings. Our corrections policy is available to view here.