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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	325.6	50.9
2	Stanford University Stanford University	278.0	42.4
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	272.7	100.0
4	Tianjin University Tianjin University	266.7	91.9
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	256.4	48.1
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	256.3	84.1
7	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	253.6	42.5
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	253.1	25.6
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	245.2	42.8
10	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	244.8	66.2
11	East China University of Science and Technology	240.5	77.1
12	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	239.2	73.6
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	236.5	26.4
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	234.3	63.9
15	Princeton University Princeton University	233.7	37.5
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	229.9	61.3
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	224.8	45.9
18	University of Science and Technology of China	223.2	67.8
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	213.5	70.1
20	University of Delaware University of Delaware	211.4	29.0
21	Sichuan University Sichuan University	210.3	56.1
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	208.1	47.4
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	208.1	62.6
24	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	207.3	35.1
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London	205.9	54.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	203.8	35.4
27	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	199.6	35.7
28	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing	199.4	63.6
29	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	199.0	62.3
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	198.5	65.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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