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	New York University New York University	298.5	100.0
2	University of Chicago University of Chicago	293.8	92.1
3	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	286.9	91.0
4	Harvard University Harvard University	274.9	85.8
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	257.7	82.7
6	Columbia University Columbia University	256.4	84.7
7	University of Southern California University of Southern California	254.6	79.1
8	Stanford University Stanford University	248.6	77.4
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	238.5	81.9
10	University of Washington University of Washington	237.7	74.3
11	Northwestern University Northwestern University	237.3	74.8
12	London Business School London Business School	237.1	70.7
13	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	236.7	79.5
14	Boston College Boston College	234.0	74.3
15	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	233.3	72.1
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	232.1	79.9
17	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	231.1	73.0
18	University of Toronto University of Toronto	230.9	80.3
19	Duke University Duke University	228.2	66.9
20	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	227.2	72.5
21	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	225.1	69.8
22	London School of Economics and Political Science	225.0	75.2
23	Cornell University Cornell University	223.3	76.5
24	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	219.7	80.7
25	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	210.1	61.2
26	Tilburg University Tilburg University	209.1	66.4
27	Arizona State University Arizona State University	206.6	70.2
28	University of Oxford University of Oxford	205.2	66.4
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	203.6	65.4
30	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	202.7	64.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.