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.

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	341.3	100.0
2	University of Washington University of Washington	335.1	74.7
3	Colorado State University Colorado State University	301.3	70.8
4	The University of Reading The University of Reading	291.6	74.8
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	290.4	79.3
6	Princeton University Princeton University	288.0	67.3
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	285.8	58.4
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	283.9	61.6
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	259.5	61.2
10	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	256.4	72.8
11	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	256.3	80.3
12	Columbia University Columbia University	250.3	79.7
13	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	247.7	90.3
14	University of Oxford University of Oxford	247.6	57.7
15	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	246.4	78.4
16	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	245.9	53.4
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	242.9	71.8
18	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	239.8	50.2
19	Yale University Yale University	228.7	39.7
20	Harvard University Harvard University	226.9	66.2
21	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	226.3	49.4
22	Stockholm University Stockholm University	224.4	55.3
23	Peking University Peking University	223.1	69.9
24	University of Leeds University of Leeds	222.1	62.5
25	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	219.8	51.0
26	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	214.1	59.3
27	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	212.5	37.3
28	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	212.2	61.9
29	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	210.1	66.0
30	University of Arizona University of Arizona	209.0	45.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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