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	284.6	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	219.0	76.3
3	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	208.2	59.5
4	University of Washington University of Washington	206.3	64.4
5	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	204.8	59.8
6	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	202.5	49.1
7	University College London University College London	199.1	59.0
8	University of Bristol University of Bristol	198.0	36.6
9	Imperial College London Imperial College London	195.4	49.9
10	Columbia University Columbia University	193.4	55.7
11	University of Oxford University of Oxford	192.3	51.7
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	191.2	60.1
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	187.4	46.4
14	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	186.7	64.5
15	Emory University Emory University	185.6	49.4
16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	185.0	54.3
17	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	180.8	46.3
18	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	177.8	39.7
19	Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University	177.6	23.9
20	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	177.1	43.8
21	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	176.9	37.3
21	Utrecht University Utrecht University	176.9	41.5
23	Boston University Boston University	175.9	45.5
24	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	174.1	53.2
25	McGill University McGill University	173.4	42.5
26	Yale University Yale University	173.0	50.8
27	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	172.6	42.2
28	Stanford University Stanford University	171.8	45.1
29	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	167.9	45.2
30	University of Basel University of Basel	167.8	32.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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