On September 15, the 2026 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), released by ShanghaiRanking, placed Tongji University’s Civil Engineering first in the world once again. This marks the tenth consecutive year Tongji’s Civil Engineering has topped the GRAS chart since 2017, making it one of only four disciplines in mainland China to hold the global No. 1 position for an uninterrupted decade.The ranking covers 57 subjects across five major fields—Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, M