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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	344.1	64.3
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	310.9	50.5
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	299.1	55.9
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	284.9	52.4
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	284.4	85.4
6	Stanford University Stanford University	278.9	43.7
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	277.0	30.6
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	276.8	100.0
9	Imperial College London Imperial College London	275.1	51.6
10	Harvard University Harvard University	274.0	41.3
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	268.8	59.1
12	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	266.8	73.8
13	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	262.2	46.0
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	260.4	43.9
15	University of Groningen University of Groningen	250.5	40.7
16	Southeast University Southeast University	245.0	76.3
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	242.4	83.7
18	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	242.3	36.7
19	Beihang University Beihang University	241.0	84.6
20	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	239.0	55.7
21	The Australian National University The Australian National University	237.2	39.0
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	226.7	76.1
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	225.6	55.9
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	222.5	46.7
25	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	222.2	45.3
25	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	222.2	30.6
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	220.4	72.7
28	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	219.6	75.8
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	219.5	27.8
30	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	216.3	65.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020