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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Washington University of Washington	299.8	99.7
2	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	296.9	100.0
3	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	280.2	91.0
4	University of Southampton University of Southampton	260.9	78.6
5	Oregon State University Oregon State University	256.9	80.8
6	Utrecht University Utrecht University	247.3	75.2
7	University of Bremen University of Bremen	236.0	68.2
8	University of Tasmania University of Tasmania	233.7	68.2
9	Columbia University Columbia University	229.6	64.0
10	University of Bergen University of Bergen	228.8	65.4
11	University of Miami University of Miami	227.2	65.9
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	226.8	63.1
13	University of Western Brittany University of Western Brittany	223.9	61.9
14	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	222.0	54.8
15	Ocean University of China Ocean University of China	221.4	78.6
16	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	220.8	61.7
17	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	217.2	60.0
18	University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa Cruz	215.8	58.7
19	Princeton University Princeton University	211.5	52.0
20	Aix Marseille University Aix Marseille University	211.2	55.6
21	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	209.8	56.2
22	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	209.2	53.7
23	Florida State University Florida State University	209.0	55.0
24	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	208.1	55.8
25	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	206.0	50.1
26	Stanford University Stanford University	203.2	52.2
27	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	201.2	53.3
28	University of Alaska - Fairbanks University of Alaska - Fairbanks	200.0	50.1
29	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	199.8	53.1
30	University of Strathclyde University of Strathclyde	199.4	50.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020