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)	320.3	48.5
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	269.6	100.0
3	Tianjin University Tianjin University	265.3	91.3
4	Stanford University Stanford University	258.2	41.7
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	251.8	48.2
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	251.0	80.2
7	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	241.8	64.1
8	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	241.0	73.6
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	240.6	39.6
10	East China University of Science and Technology	239.2	74.1
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	234.3	24.4
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	229.8	39.6
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	225.3	26.7
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	224.5	60.8
15	Sichuan University Sichuan University	221.4	58.5
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	220.3	61.6
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	220.1	45.8
18	University of Science and Technology of China	218.6	68.4
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	216.5	70.6
20	Princeton University Princeton University	214.2	36.7
21	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing	205.1	63.2
22	Imperial College London Imperial College London	205.0	53.5
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	204.7	68.3
24	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	204.2	64.3
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	203.4	65.3
26	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	201.8	45.0
27	NanJing Tech University NanJing Tech University	199.8	57.7
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	199.3	33.2
29	University of Delaware University of Delaware	197.0	26.0
30	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	196.7	56.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020