Nature Index: Biological Sciences (2025)

Recorded placements 119

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

1. #1Harvard University1st in the world for biological sciences
2. #2Zhejiang University2nd in the world for biological sciences
3. #3Stanford University3rd in the world for biological sciences
4. #5Peking University5th in the world for biological sciences
5. #6Shanghai Jiao Tong University6th in the world for biological sciences
6. #7Fudan University7th in the world for biological sciences
7. #8Yale University8th in the world for biological sciences
8. #9University of Oxford9th in the world for biological sciences
9. #10Tsinghua University10th in the world for biological sciences
10. #11Massachusetts Institute of Technology11th in the world for biological sciences
11. #13University of Toronto13th in the world for biological sciences
12. #15University of Pennsylvania15th in the world for biological sciences
13. #16University of Michigan-Ann Arbor16th in the world for biological sciences
14. #17Cornell University17th in the world for biological sciences
15. #18Johns Hopkins University18th in the world for biological sciences
16. #19University of Washington19th in the world for biological sciences
17. #20University of California, San Diego20th in the world for biological sciences
18. #21University of Cambridge21st in the world for biological sciences
19. #22Columbia University22nd in the world for biological sciences
20. #23University of California, Los Angeles23rd in the world for biological sciences
21. #24University of California, Berkeley24th in the world for biological sciences
22. #27University of Chicago27th in the world for biological sciences
23. #29University of Tokyo29th in the world for biological sciences
24. #30University of California, San Francisco30th in the world for biological sciences
25. #32University of Wisconsin-Madison32nd in the world for biological sciences
26. #34ETH Zurich34th in the world for biological sciences
27. #35Princeton University35th in the world for biological sciences
28. #37Duke University37th in the world for biological sciences
29. #38National University of Singapore38th in the world for biological sciences
30. #41McGill University41st in the world for biological sciences
31. #43University of British Columbia43rd in the world for biological sciences
32. #44University of Copenhagen44th in the world for biological sciences
33. #45University of Texas at Austin45th in the world for biological sciences
34. #47University of Science and Technology of China47th in the world for biological sciences
35. #48Kyoto University48th in the world for biological sciences
36. #49Northwestern University49th in the world for biological sciences
37. #52University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign52nd in the world for biological sciences
38. #53Vanderbilt University53rd in the world for biological sciences
39. #54University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill54th in the world for biological sciences
40. #55University of Queensland55th in the world for biological sciences
41. #56University of Edinburgh56th in the world for biological sciences
42. #57New York University57th in the world for biological sciences
43. #59University College London59th in the world for biological sciences
44. #62University of Minnesota62nd in the world for biological sciences
45. #63Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich63rd in the world for biological sciences
46. #66Imperial College London66th in the world for biological sciences
47. #69University of Southern California69th in the world for biological sciences
48. #70Karolinska Institute70th in the world for biological sciences
49. #74California Institute of Technology74th in the world for biological sciences
50. #77University of Bristol77th in the world for biological sciences
51. #80University of Pittsburgh80th in the world for biological sciences
52. #82Seoul National University82nd in the world for biological sciences
53. #85Pennsylvania State University85th in the world for biological sciences
54. #86Monash University86th in the world for biological sciences
55. #89Technical University of Munich89th in the world for biological sciences
56. #90University of Zurich90th in the world for biological sciences
57. #91Hebrew University of Jerusalem91st in the world for biological sciences
58. #93Ohio State University93rd in the world for biological sciences
59. #95Utrecht University95th in the world for biological sciences
60. #100Osaka University100th in the world for biological sciences
61. #107EPFL107th in the world for biological sciences
62. #109KU Leuven109th in the world for biological sciences
63. #110University of Vienna110th in the world for biological sciences
64. #111Purdue University111th in the world for biological sciences
65. #112Chinese University of Hong Kong112th in the world for biological sciences
66. #113University of Hong Kong113th in the world for biological sciences
67. #114University of Alberta114th in the world for biological sciences
68. #115Tel Aviv University115th in the world for biological sciences
69. #119University of Sydney119th in the world for biological sciences
70. #120Lund University120th in the world for biological sciences
71. #126Georgia Institute of Technology126th in the world for biological sciences
72. #128Heidelberg University128th in the world for biological sciences
73. #134University of Melbourne134th in the world for biological sciences
74. #146Hong Kong University of Science and Technology146th in the world for biological sciences
75. #150University of Montreal150th in the world for biological sciences
76. #156University of Manchester156th in the world for biological sciences
77. #157Rice University157th in the world for biological sciences
78. #159Tohoku University159th in the world for biological sciences
79. #160University of Sao Paulo160th in the world for biological sciences
80. #165Sorbonne University165th in the world for biological sciences
81. #170PSL University170th in the world for biological sciences
82. #174Boston University174th in the world for biological sciences
83. #179King's College London179th in the world for biological sciences
84. #181Nanyang Technological University181st in the world for biological sciences
85. #185Institute of Science Tokyo185th in the world for biological sciences
86. #190University of Glasgow190th in the world for biological sciences
87. #202University of New South Wales202nd in the world for biological sciences
88. #203Queen Mary University of London203rd in the world for biological sciences
89. #206University of Leeds206th in the world for biological sciences
90. #209University of Birmingham209th in the world for biological sciences
91. #216University of Amsterdam216th in the world for biological sciences
92. #222Brown University222nd in the world for biological sciences
93. #232Delft University of Technology232nd in the world for biological sciences
94. #235University of Maryland, College Park235th in the world for biological sciences
95. #239KAIST239th in the world for biological sciences
96. #251City University of Hong Kong251st in the world for biological sciences
97. #257Australian National University257th in the world for biological sciences
98. #259Korea University259th in the world for biological sciences
99. #269University of Western Australia269th in the world for biological sciences
100. #274Carnegie Mellon University274th in the world for biological sciences
101. #280University of St Andrews280th in the world for biological sciences
102. #281University of Southampton281st in the world for biological sciences
103. #292University of Nottingham292nd in the world for biological sciences
104. #293University of Sheffield293rd in the world for biological sciences
105. #306Durham University306th in the world for biological sciences
106. #317Yonsei University317th in the world for biological sciences
107. #318University of Adelaide318th in the world for biological sciences
108. #356Macquarie University356th in the world for biological sciences
109. #359King Abdullah University of Science and Technology359th in the world for biological sciences
110. #361RWTH Aachen University361st in the world for biological sciences
111. #375Queensland University of Technology375th in the world for biological sciences
112. #384KTH Royal Institute of Technology384th in the world for biological sciences
113. #398National Autonomous University of Mexico398th in the world for biological sciences
114. #415University of Warwick415th in the world for biological sciences
115. #416University of Newcastle416th in the world for biological sciences
116. #432University of Technology Sydney432nd in the world for biological sciences
117. #459University of Otago459th in the world for biological sciences
118. #477Griffith University477th in the world for biological sciences
119. #480James Cook University480th in the world for biological sciences