Already positioned in the top 200 of the 2025 Shanghai Global Ranking, Université Grenoble Alpes reaffirms its excellence and scientific dynamism with the release of the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects on November 18, 2025. This year, UGA is featured in 30 disciplines, maintaining its position as the third most-represented French university by number of ranked disciplines—behind Sorbonne Université and Université Paris-Saclay—and achieving a top-100 global ranking in 10 disciplines.
This latest ranking once again demonstrates the strength of the scientific research that characterizes Université Grenoble Alpes. It highlights the ability of scientific teams to foster dialogue across diverse disciplines and produce world-class research. These results enhance UGA's international appeal and reflect the prestige of its laboratories in increasingly strategic fields.
UGA Ranks Among the World's Top 100 in 10 Disciplines
Rankings: Of the 57 disciplines evaluated, UGA ranks among the world’s top 100 in 10 categories and among France’s top 5 in 19 categories, including three national first-place rankings in remote sensing, materials science and engineering, and geography. It also ranks as the second-best French university in automation and control, electrical and electronic engineering, instrument science and technology, energy science and engineering, environmental science and engineering, as well as in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
It is worth noting UGA’s global standing in the field of artificial intelligence: a newly evaluated discipline in which the university ranks among the top 200–300.
These achievements reaffirm UGA’s position as one of France’s leading research-intensive universities and demonstrate the strength of its scientific ecosystem, which is based on a strong synergy between the university and the national research organizations located on its campus.
Of the 57 disciplines evaluated, UGA is ranked 30 times, including 10 times in the top 100
Subject
Rank
Position
Remote Sensing
14th (-3)
No.1 university in France
Earth Sciences
21st (-5)
4th-ranked university in France
Automation and Control
51–75 (++)
2 Ranking -3 of French universities
Mathematics
51-75 (=)
5 Ranking -8 of French universities
Physics
51-75 (=)
6 Ranking -7 of French universities
Metallurgical Engineering
76–100 (+)
4th-ranked university in France
Clinical Medicine
76–100 (--)
4th-ranked university in France
Oceanography
76–100 (+)
5 Ranking -8 of French universities
Atmospheric Science
76–100 (-)
6 Ranking -7 of French universities
Ecology
76–100 (-)
6 Ranking -7 of French universities
Computer Science and Engineering
101-150 (=)
2 Ranking -3 of French universities
Water Resources
101-150 (=)
2 Ranking -3 of French universities
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
101–150 (--)
2nd-ranked university in France
Materials Science and Engineering
151-200 (=)
1 Ranking -2 of French universities
Geography
151-200 (=)
1 Ranking -3 of French universities
Chemistry
151-200 (=)
5 Ranking -8 of French universities
Science and Technology Instruments
201-300 (=)
2 Ranking -3 of French universities
Energy Science & Engineering
201-300
2 Ranking -5 of French universities
Environmental Science and Engineering
201-300 (=)
2 Ranking -7 of French universities
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
201–300 (--)
2 Ranking -6 of French universities
Public Health
201-300 (=)
3 Ranking -7 of French universities
Artificial Intelligence
201–300 (new)
6 Ranking -7 of French universities
Biological Sciences
201–300 (++)
7 Ranking -9 of French universities
Statistics
201–300 (-)
9 Ranking -12 of French universities
Mechanical Engineering
201–300 (--)
15 Ranking -20 of French universities
Civil Engineering
301–400 (--)
3 Ranking -4 of French universities
Psychology
301–400 (-)
4 Ranking -10 of French universities
Biotechnology
301-400 (=)
7 Ranking -11 of French universities
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
301-400 (=)
8 Ranking -11 of French universities
Human Biological Sciences
301-400 (=)
13 Ranking -18 of French universities
Legend: = rank of 2,024; +: up one rank; ++: up two ranks; -: down one rank; --: down two ranks
Shanghai Thematic Ranking Methodology
This year’s ranking covers 57 disciplines in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences, including two new disciplines: artificial intelligence and robotics. In total, approximately 2,000 universities from 92 countries and regions are included in the 2025 edition of the GRAS.
The research performance indicators considered in this ranking include the number of scientific articles published by the institution in a given discipline, the impact of these articles and the number of citations of these scientific publications in other articles, the number of articles published in the top scientific journals, the international nature of the published results (number of international teams involved), and the scientific awards won by researchers at the evaluated universities.
Published on 18, November 2025
Updated on 7, September 2026
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