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	Tongji University Tongji University	366.5	100.0
2	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	266.9	48.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	250.8	82.3
4	National Technical University of Athens National Technical University of Athens	229.5	39.5
5	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	225.5	75.8
6	Polytechnic University of Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid	225.0	43.4
7	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	224.7	39.2
8	Lehigh University Lehigh University	224.4	23.3
9	University of Canterbury University of Canterbury	223.9	23.9
10	Southeast University Southeast University	220.0	76.6
11	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	218.2	50.1
12	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	215.9	59.3
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	208.8	56.7
14	Hunan University Hunan University	207.3	58.8
15	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	206.7	54.4
16	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	203.8	53.9
17	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	199.6	28.6
18	Western University Western University	199.3	31.1
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	198.8	67.6
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	198.3	44.7
21	University of Sydney University of Sydney	195.2	50.4
22	Tianjin University Tianjin University	192.2	66.9
23	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	190.2	49.9
24	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	189.9	68.9
25	Chongqing University Chongqing University	189.1	57.5
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	189.1	59.1
27	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	188.1	43.9
28	Colorado State University Colorado State University	187.9	27.7
29	Imperial College London Imperial College London	186.3	46.0
30	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	185.8	40.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020