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	Harvard University Harvard University	399.8	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	304.5	78.7
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	292.0	69.8
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	282.6	72.7
5	Columbia University Columbia University	278.6	71.4
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	276.7	74.2
7	Duke University Duke University	275.4	71.9
8	Princeton University Princeton University	274.2	59.2
9	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	259.9	69.3
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto	258.3	62.2
11	University of Chicago University of Chicago	257.1	63.7
12	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	250.8	66.3
13	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	249.6	57.1
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	248.5	66.3
15	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	242.4	53.6
16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	234.7	77.1
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	233.9	56.5
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	232.9	64.2
19	University of Washington University of Washington	215.9	72.5
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	214.4	65.6
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	202.7	63.9
22	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	194.6	57.7
23	Yale University Yale University	193.4	59.2
24	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	192.4	55.5
25	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	192.1	54.6
26	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	191.9	47.0
27	University College London University College London	191.8	65.1
28	University of Oxford University of Oxford	190.0	65.8
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	185.3	51.2
30	University of Warwick University of Warwick	182.4	59.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.