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.

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Wuhan University Wuhan University	282.0	100.0
2	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	241.3	68.8
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	231.4	62.3
4	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	220.6	71.4
5	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	204.9	52.0
6	University of Iceland University of Iceland	202.2	35.4
7	University of Twente University of Twente	198.9	52.5
8	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	197.4	44.4
9	Xidian University Xidian University	190.8	48.9
10	Boston University Boston University	188.7	33.3
11	University of Valencia University of Valencia	188.1	37.6
12	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	185.6	37.1
13	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	183.3	39.2
14	South Dakota State University South Dakota State University	182.1	33.7
15	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	181.5	37.6
16	Nanjing University Nanjing University	179.9	45.6
17	University of Zurich University of Zurich	177.5	31.6
18	University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Boston	176.9	25.7
19	University of Trento University of Trento	176.7	31.4
20	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	175.7	36.7
21	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	174.3	43.2
22	Peking University Peking University	174.1	43.5
23	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	173.9	27.0
24	Hunan University Hunan University	173.7	23.8
25	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin	172.1	27.5
26	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	171.6	33.1
27	University of Extremadura University of Extremadura	169.7	28.2
28	Monash University Monash University	169.3	27.5
29	University of Oklahoma - Norman University of Oklahoma - Norman	168.0	36.6
30	Mississippi State University Mississippi State University	167.6	26.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.