The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn has once again been classified in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). In this renown ranking, our university was listed in two categories: veterinary sciences and agricultural sciences. Veterinary science was listed in the 51-75st range which makes it the first in Poland. Last year veterinary science was listed in the 101-150^th range and a year before 151-200^th range, continuous raise in the ranking is undoubtedly a reason to be proud from by our scientists and students. Besides our University there were listed five other polish Universities that have veterinary medicine in their offer.

The second subject that was listed in this year’s edition of GRAS – Agricultural sciences stayed in the same range: 201-300^th. The subject apart from agriculture, horticulture and forestry encompasses also such research fields as animal breeding and fisheries which means that efforts two of our Faculties: the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and the Faculty of Animal Bioengineering are taken into account in the ranking. In This subject apart from UWM were listed 6 other polish Universities.  

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration. The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.