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	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	380.6	80.5
2	Stanford University Stanford University	357.7	69.9
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	355.9	78.6
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	336.9	70.5
5	Harvard University Harvard University	329.3	64.5
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	327.8	49.1
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago	293.3	75.8
8	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	293.0	72.8
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	292.0	71.6
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	284.3	90.8
11	University of Science and Technology of China	281.1	97.8
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	278.9	70.6
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	277.6	61.1
14	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	276.2	75.1
15	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	274.3	100.0
16	Kyoto University Kyoto University	267.9	80.7
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford	267.2	70.1
18	Peking University Peking University	266.7	90.8
19	Columbia University Columbia University	260.0	45.7
20	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	255.6	52.9
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	254.2	79.6
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	253.5	55.8
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	248.1	64.3
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	246.6	53.5
25	Nanjing University Nanjing University	245.2	87.9
26	Nankai University Nankai University	244.1	81.5
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	244.1	45.5
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	244.0	94.6
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	240.9	61.3
30	Fudan University Fudan University	239.6	79.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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