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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	351.4	65.0
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	322.7	54.2
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	302.5	55.8
4	University of Toronto University of Toronto	292.8	43.6
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	285.5	53.6
6	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	282.6	100.0
7	Imperial College London Imperial College London	281.9	51.6
8	Stanford University Stanford University	279.8	42.9
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	279.6	84.2
10	Harvard University Harvard University	279.1	42.6
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	277.6	31.2
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	269.9	58.7
13	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	268.1	49.9
14	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	258.8	71.3
15	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	251.3	39.1
16	University of Groningen University of Groningen	247.2	39.8
17	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	244.6	56.9
18	The Australian National University The Australian National University	243.3	39.5
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	240.7	81.9
20	Beihang University Beihang University	235.9	82.2
21	Southeast University Southeast University	235.4	72.9
22	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	227.3	32.6
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	224.9	53.8
24	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	223.4	47.9
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	222.6	48.0
26	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	221.5	72.8
27	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	219.4	65.2
28	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	216.6	26.0
29	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	215.3	53.6
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	214.9	67.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.