2021 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.(Methodology)

299 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford	290.4	100.0
2	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	283.1	75.8
3	Utrecht University Utrecht University	282.3	91.6
4	University College London University College London	266.6	83.3
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	265.6	86.9
6	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	257.8	83.0
7	University of Exeter University of Exeter	257.2	72.8
8	Durham University Durham University	247.8	80.3
9	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield	246.3	73.7
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	243.2	66.8
11	Newcastle University Newcastle University	242.4	63.7
11	University of Leeds University of Leeds	242.4	73.1
13	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	239.8	68.8
14	Stockholm University Stockholm University	238.4	64.9
15	The Australian National University The Australian National University	236.4	74.9
16	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	233.9	75.4
17	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	232.7	74.9
18	King's College London King's College London	228.8	57.2
19	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	227.1	74.4
20	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	226.9	68.8
21	University of Washington University of Washington	225.7	63.2
22	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	225.2	56.5
23	Cardiff University Cardiff University	222.4	55.8
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.3	68.4
25	Arizona State University Arizona State University	220.2	65.1
26	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	219.5	63.9
26	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	219.5	60.5
28	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	219.4	77.1
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	219.0	64.7
30	Lund University Lund University	217.7	62.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

1
2
3
4
5
•••
10

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020