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.

299 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Ghent University Ghent University	287.6	95.2
2	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	250.9	81.4
3	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	250.8	79.5
4	University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover	249.0	79.7
5	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona	244.4	72.6
6	The Royal Veterinary College The Royal Veterinary College	243.9	94.8
7	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna	238.1	77.0
8	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	234.8	100.0
9	University of Bern University of Bern	232.6	76.6
10	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	231.6	58.8
11	Utrecht University Utrecht University	231.0	80.0
12	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	230.6	70.3
13	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	229.4	60.4
14	Complutense University of Madrid Complutense University of Madrid	225.7	65.2
15	University of Guelph University of Guelph	224.4	82.3
16	Leibniz University Hannover Leibniz University Hannover	223.2	67.4
17	University of Sydney University of Sydney	221.4	69.4
18	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	219.6	75.5
19	Iowa State University Iowa State University	217.4	62.5
20	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	216.5	45.7
21	University of Zurich University of Zurich	216.2	76.6
22	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	215.7	68.2
23	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	213.2	68.2
24	University of Liverpool University of Liverpool	212.9	71.9
25	Cornell University Cornell University	211.9	75.0
26	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	211.6	59.6
27	South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University	211.5	50.9
28	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	206.5	70.4
29	The University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow	206.0	58.2
30	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo	203.5	80.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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