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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Science and Technology Beijing	269.4	96.2
2	Central South University Central South University	237.7	100.0
3	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	230.5	89.2
4	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	230.0	81.7
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	229.1	76.5
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville	226.6	49.4
7	Tohoku University Tohoku University	217.6	67.3
8	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	215.6	47.5
9	Monash University Monash University	214.6	44.8
10	Pohang University of Science and Technology	213.3	57.5
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	211.7	84.3
12	Chongqing University Chongqing University	205.5	67.0
13	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	202.3	46.0
14	Northwestern University Northwestern University	200.2	40.9
15	University of Leoben University of Leoben	198.3	49.0
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford	195.4	37.3
17	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	195.0	63.8
18	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes	193.6	49.9
19	University of Chicago University of Chicago	192.7	40.1
20	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	191.9	60.4
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	191.3	34.8
22	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	191.0	44.1
23	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	189.7	32.1
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	189.3	38.6
25	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	188.9	41.8
26	Shanghai University Shanghai University	187.3	56.7
27	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	186.8	56.4
28	Beihang University Beihang University	186.1	60.9
29	Imperial College London Imperial College London	185.2	39.6
30	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	184.9	40.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.