2020 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	390.1	90.1
2	Stanford University Stanford University	350.6	82.5
3	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	343.1	94.8
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	342.6	90.3
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	338.9	87.6
6	University of Chicago University of Chicago	337.6	82.9
7	Harvard University Harvard University	336.6	96.5
8	Princeton University Princeton University	336.3	73.9
9	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	319.7	89.4
10	PSL University PSL University	319.1	81.1
11	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	301.6	63.2
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	296.2	61.5
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	291.7	58.9
14	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	291.3	100.0
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	289.1	60.9
16	University of Washington University of Washington	285.2	57.0
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	272.1	92.1
18	Cornell University Cornell University	268.5	54.1
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	264.4	62.4
20	University of Oxford University of Oxford	263.6	81.6
21	Columbia University Columbia University	259.9	59.2
22	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	259.6	73.5
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	259.6	71.2
24	University of Paris University of Paris	255.7	77.8
25	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	255.2	44.1
26	University of Munich University of Munich	252.3	61.9
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	246.5	82.0
28	The Australian National University The Australian National University	245.7	58.4
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	243.9	65.5
30	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	241.7	72.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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