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	360.9	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	320.4	61.6
3	Stanford University Stanford University	311.3	61.6
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	284.1	61.7
5	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	281.8	30.9
6	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	277.8	56.7
7	Columbia University Columbia University	275.5	48.1
8	University of Washington University of Washington	272.7	59.0
9	University College London University College London	264.1	56.3
10	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	255.1	59.5
11	Yale University Yale University	251.5	51.5
12	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	249.6	38.5
13	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	242.0	51.2
14	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	234.0	49.8
15	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	230.6	31.3
16	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	229.1	47.1
17	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	222.6	27.6
18	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	210.8	43.2
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	209.1	58.4
20	Princeton University Princeton University	206.0	30.4
21	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology	205.4	18.7
22	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	205.2	22.7
23	University of Oxford University of Oxford	204.5	63.5
24	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	204.0	56.5
25	Cornell University Cornell University	201.6	57.1
26	University of Toronto University of Toronto	199.1	58.9
27	Cardiff University Cardiff University	198.8	27.4
28	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	197.9	53.3
29	University of Utah University of Utah	192.4	35.6
30	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	192.3	46.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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