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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	329.6	54.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	310.6	43.2
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	310.0	45.2
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	270.2	54.0
5	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	247.3	45.3
6	Princeton University Princeton University	246.5	37.8
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	242.0	100.0
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	237.3	81.4
9	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	223.9	33.5
10	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	222.6	31.5
11	Harvard University Harvard University	217.7	33.1
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	215.8	83.1
13	Aalborg University Aalborg University	213.7	60.5
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	212.0	60.3
15	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	209.7	35.9
16	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	208.3	45.0
17	Southeast University Southeast University	207.1	88.2
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	202.5	82.5
19	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	201.4	43.6
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	201.0	27.4
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	200.8	41.7
22	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	200.2	40.0
22	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	200.2	53.1
24	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	200.1	47.1
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	199.8	50.9
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	199.7	77.1
27	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	199.3	78.1
28	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	198.8	90.0
29	Imperial College London Imperial College London	198.0	52.5
30	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	195.4	44.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020