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	Central South University Central South University	262.2	100.0
2	China University of Mining and Technology	259.3	65.6
3	China University of Geosciences Beijing China University of Geosciences Beijing	226.4	95.8
4	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	225.1	72.4
5	China University of Mining & Technology-Beijing	214.2	47.7
6	Sichuan University Sichuan University	207.0	36.6
7	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	205.0	45.5
8	China University of Geosciences China University of Geosciences	204.2	67.2
9	Monash University Monash University	203.0	48.6
10	Shandong University of Science and Technology	196.0	32.5
11	University of Lorraine University of Lorraine	193.2	45.5
12	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	192.0	85.1
13	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	189.4	49.0
14	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	184.5	63.8
15	Kyushu University Kyushu University	178.0	35.5
16	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	177.7	33.1
17	Chongqing University Chongqing University	177.6	38.3
18	McGill University McGill University	177.4	58.4
19	Curtin University Curtin University	174.8	57.4
20	University of Toronto University of Toronto	174.7	33.1
21	Nanjing University Nanjing University	174.6	52.6
22	University of Alberta University of Alberta	169.4	46.0
23	Imperial College London Imperial College London	169.2	34.9
24	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	167.7	31.2
25	University of Tasmania University of Tasmania	166.6	43.7
26	Colorado School of Mines Colorado School of Mines	166.5	39.3
27	Technical University Freiberg Technical University Freiberg	164.8	40.8
28	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	164.4	23.9
29	University of Science and Technology Beijing	164.3	59.1
30	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	163.3	25.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.