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.

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	387.2	88.7
2	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	361.3	94.2
3	Columbia University Columbia University	354.3	82.3
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	334.5	73.4
5	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	316.3	61.6
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	315.1	67.0
7	Princeton University Princeton University	291.8	53.6
8	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	286.6	100.0
9	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	268.6	96.6
10	Harvard University Harvard University	263.8	55.5
11	Utrecht University Utrecht University	258.8	89.5
12	University of Paris University of Paris	256.9	61.1
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	255.7	76.9
14	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	254.5	63.5
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	254.3	71.1
16	University of Washington University of Washington	250.2	74.7
17	University of Iowa University of Iowa	244.1	44.9
18	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	239.8	80.5
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	239.6	76.6
20	University of Bristol University of Bristol	238.1	77.6
21	University of Leeds University of Leeds	236.9	72.6
22	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	233.9	63.7
23	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	230.3	69.2
24	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	226.6	92.6
25	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	226.4	75.0
26	The Australian National University The Australian National University	225.2	72.2
27	Imperial College London Imperial College London	223.0	66.8
27	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	223.0	74.2
29	University of Bremen University of Bremen	220.9	70.9
30	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	219.5	61.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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