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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford	297.6	100.0
2	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	289.2	75.9
3	Utrecht University Utrecht University	275.6	90.2
4	University College London University College London	266.7	80.2
5	University of Exeter University of Exeter	260.0	72.5
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	257.3	83.3
7	Stockholm University Stockholm University	256.7	69.9
8	Durham University Durham University	250.9	80.0
9	The Australian National University The Australian National University	241.3	73.6
10	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	240.9	75.9
11	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	240.4	76.4
12	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	240.0	66.1
13	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	238.9	76.9
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	238.9	75.2
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	237.4	65.3
16	University of Leeds University of Leeds	235.6	70.0
17	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	235.3	68.3
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	230.4	67.3
19	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	228.8	78.1
20	University of Washington University of Washington	227.4	63.5
21	Newcastle University Newcastle University	227.2	59.3
22	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	226.5	63.0
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	225.2	67.7
24	Arizona State University Arizona State University	223.9	64.9
25	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	223.1	53.7
26	Cardiff University Cardiff University	221.4	53.9
27	Stanford University Stanford University	218.5	50.3
28	University of Zurich University of Zurich	218.3	64.9
29	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	217.8	63.2
30	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona	217.1	58.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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