According to the 2025 Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) has nine subjects listed this year: Business Administration, Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering, Instruments Science and Technology, Economics, Computer Science and Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. This means that over half of UNNC’s subjects are now ranked among the world’s best.
The 2025 GRAS ranks universities across 57 subjects spanning natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. More than 3,000 universities worldwide were evaluated, with the final rankings featuring nearly 20,000 subject entries from over 2,000 higher education institutions across 92 countries and regions.
UNNC continues to demonstrate strong performance in subject development. This year, Business Administration and Management were ranked in the 13 to 21 and 18 to 31 bands respectively in the Chinese mainland. Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering were all ranked among the top 100 in China. Civil Engineering and Instrument Science and Technology entered the GRAS for the first time, ranking in the 86 to 113 and 121 to 147 bands in China respectively.
In 2018, UNNC became the first Sino-foreign cooperative university to be included in the GRAS. Since then, the University has seen a steady increase in the number of ranked subjects, rising from two to nine. Notably, Management has been listed for eight consecutive years, while Business Administration has appeared for six consecutive years.
The ranking is based on an indicator framework covering world-class faculty, world-class achievements, high-level research output, research impact and international collaboration, using multiple objective indicators to reflect global competitiveness. Data show that several ranked subjects at UNNC lead all Sino-foreign cooperative universities in key indicators, including Category Normalized Citation Impact, International Collaboration, First Quartile Journals and Top Journals.
All ranking statistics cited in this article refer to the Chinese mainland.
Published on 22 December 2025