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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	301.3	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	264.6	77.6
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	244.3	64.4
4	Stanford University Stanford University	235.8	70.4
5	Fudan University Fudan University	235.0	53.2
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	227.2	64.8
7	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	224.2	59.1
8	Soochow University Soochow University	222.8	48.2
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	215.7	63.4
10	Seoul National University Seoul National University	212.4	56.5
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	211.7	57.3
11	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	211.7	56.7
13	Sichuan University Sichuan University	210.8	51.9
14	Peking University Peking University	209.2	55.8
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London	207.4	60.4
16	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	205.3	52.1
17	Korea University Korea University	203.8	49.5
18	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	203.0	39.6
19	Utrecht University Utrecht University	201.9	49.7
20	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	201.4	56.7
21	Columbia University Columbia University	198.7	49.3
22	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	197.9	55.7
23	University College London University College London	196.6	64.1
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	196.4	60.7
25	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	196.3	55.7
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	196.3	52.5
27	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	195.3	54.6
28	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	194.6	51.3
29	University of Science and Technology of China	193.4	35.0
30	Pohang University of Science and Technology	192.7	34.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020