Shanghai Subject Ranking 2025: Université Grenoble Alpes ranked worldwide in 30 disciplines

Already positioned in the global top 200 of the 2025 Shanghai Ranking, Université Grenoble Alpes further confirms its excellence and scientific vitality with the publication of the 2025 Shanghai Subject Ranking on November 18, 2025. This year, UGA appears in 30 disciplines, maintaining its position as the third most represented French university in terms of the number of ranked disciplines—behind Sorbonne Université and Université Paris-Saclay—and reaching the world top 100 in 10 fields .It ranks 14th among the world’s top universities in remote sensing (1st in France) and 21th (4th in France) in Earth Sciences, two themes covered by the OSUG laboratories.

The Shanghai Thematic Ranking 2025 covers 57 subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences, including two new fields: artificial intelligence and robotics. In total, around 2,000 universities from 92 countries and regions are included in the 2025 edition of the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).

The ranking considers the following research performance indicators: Number of scientific publications in a given field ; Impact of these publications and their citation count ; Number of papers published in top-tier scientific journals ; International nature of the published results (number of international teams involved) ; Scientific awards received by researchers from the evaluated universities.

UGA in the world top 50 in 2 disciplines covered by OSUG

  • Remote Sensing: 14 (-3), 1st in France
  • Earth Sciences: 21 (-5), 4th in France

UGA ranking by theme on the other disciplines covered in our laboratories

  • Physics: 51-75 (=), ranked 6-7 among French universities
  • Atmospheric Science: 76-100 (-), ranked 6-7 among French universities
  • Geography: 151-200 (=), ranked 1-3 among French universities
  • Ecology: 76-100 (-), ranked 6-7 among French universities
  • Oceanography: 76-100 (+), ranked 5-8 among French universities
  • Water Resources: 101-150 (=), ranked 2-3 among French universities
  • Environmental Science & Engineering : 201-300 (=), ranked 2-7 among French universities

Legend: = rank equal to 2024; +: up one bracket; -: down one bracket

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► This article was initially published by Université Grenoble Alpes

Updated on 17 September 2026