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 California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	270.4	81.8
2	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	269.8	93.0
3	Harvard University Harvard University	268.5	84.2
4	Stanford University Stanford University	266.6	78.0
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	255.1	100.0
6	Cornell University Cornell University	253.4	95.5
7	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	250.0	97.3
8	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	243.9	86.6
9	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	236.3	85.4
10	New York University New York University	235.4	71.2
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	232.2	81.0
12	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	225.9	75.8
13	Duke University Duke University	225.2	65.8
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	224.7	82.2
15	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	222.9	70.7
16	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	222.0	77.1
17	University of Chicago University of Chicago	219.6	65.8
18	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	218.9	71.7
19	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	218.7	87.4
20	Columbia University Columbia University	217.6	61.5
21	Princeton University Princeton University	216.8	59.8
22	Northwestern University Northwestern University	214.8	63.7
23	London School of Economics and Political Science	205.6	78.0
24	Yale University Yale University	199.8	55.1
25	University of Washington University of Washington	196.0	63.1
26	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	191.0	62.6
27	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	186.9	81.8
28	Utrecht University Utrecht University	186.1	67.8
29	Michigan State University Michigan State University	184.3	73.1
30	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	179.5	53.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.