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	Harvard University Harvard University	316.1	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	270.3	77.2
3	Stanford University Stanford University	253.3	70.8
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	252.3	68.7
5	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	250.3	73.7
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	247.5	65.8
7	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	241.9	65.6
8	Cornell University Cornell University	240.1	68.2
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	236.6	62.3
10	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	235.8	69.8
11	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	233.1	64.7
12	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	228.4	66.4
13	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	228.3	66.9
14	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	227.4	56.4
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford	226.6	59.4
16	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	225.8	75.0
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	225.5	65.4
17	University of Washington University of Washington	225.5	59.8
19	University of Toronto University of Toronto	225.4	61.4
20	University College London University College London	221.4	61.3
21	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	220.5	60.1
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	219.9	66.8
23	Ghent University Ghent University	219.2	64.8
24	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	217.9	57.1
25	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	217.6	50.8
26	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	217.4	56.4
27	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	215.9	59.0
28	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	215.5	57.4
29	Seoul National University Seoul National University	215.2	65.4
30	Imperial College London Imperial College London	213.5	57.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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