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.

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Beihang University Beihang University	279.2	100.0
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	221.9	68.7
3	National University of Defense Technology	219.5	70.6
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	217.6	68.2
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	214.2	39.4
6	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	211.3	61.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	208.4	41.0
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	206.0	36.0
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	203.1	46.1
10	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	196.3	34.7
11	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	195.6	57.4
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	191.1	48.6
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	189.0	35.2
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	188.6	27.2
15	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	185.0	34.7
16	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	177.2	31.0
16	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	177.2	42.1
18	Stanford University Stanford University	176.8	26.2
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	175.5	28.5
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	171.6	18.7
20	University of Southampton University of Southampton	171.6	28.2
22	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	171.5	27.2
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	171.4	28.2
24	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	168.7	42.3
25	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II	167.7	28.8
26	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	165.3	40.8
27	University of Bristol University of Bristol	164.0	20.2
28	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	162.0	36.5
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	161.0	26.8
30	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	160.8	26.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.