Ranked 1st in the world for Economics
Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Economics, 2025
Full ranking profile 70 placements
Every placement the Index records for University of Chicago. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Headline Economics | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =1 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Finance | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =1 |
| SCImago 2025 Economics, Econometrics and Finance | SCImago Research Group | =3 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Law | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =4 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =5 |
| NTU 2025 Economics & Business | National Taiwan University | =6 |
| USN-Nat 2026 | U.S. News & World Report | =6 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Economics | METU (URAP Lab) | =7 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =10 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =11 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =11 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =13 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =13 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =13 |
| Forbes 2025-2026 | Forbes | =13 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =14 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =15 |
| SCImago 2025 research | SCImago Research Group | =16 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =16 |
| NTU 2025 Physics | National Taiwan University | =17 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =24 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =24 |
| NTU 2025 Space Science | National Taiwan University | =25 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =26 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =27 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =28 |
| WSJ 2026 | Wall Street Journal | =30 |
| NTU 2025 Energy Science & Engineering | National Taiwan University | =31 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Physical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =31 |
| NTU 2025 Chemical Engineering | National Taiwan University | =34 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =36 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Law and Legal Studies | METU (URAP Lab) | =37 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Mathematical Sciences | METU (URAP Lab) | =39 |
| NTU 2025 Mathematics | National Taiwan University | =40 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =43 |
| NTU 2025 Chemistry | National Taiwan University | =43 |
| NTU 2025 Materials Science | National Taiwan University | =44 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =46 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =50 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =53 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =55 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =61 |
| SCImago 2026 Environmental Science | SCImago Research Group | =61 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =62 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Studies in Human Society | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =67 |
| SCImago 2025 Social Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =69 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =71 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =77 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =83 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =84 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =85 |
| SCImago 2025 Psychology | SCImago Research Group | =86 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =89 |
| SCImago 2026 Business, Management and Accounting | SCImago Research Group | =91 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =93 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =93 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =97 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =108 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =113 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =114 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =138 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =143 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =143 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =146 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =155 |
| SCImago 2025 Agricultural and Biological Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =155 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =162 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =235 |
| SCImago 2025 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | SCImago Research Group | =307 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =351 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.