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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	278.9	100.0
2	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	264.9	57.6
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	255.6	53.5
4	Stanford University Stanford University	254.7	48.0
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	247.7	47.4
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	244.1	77.3
7	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	242.7	69.8
8	University of Science and Technology of China	241.5	81.3
9	Peking University Peking University	240.1	53.5
10	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	237.1	93.5
11	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	235.0	49.1
12	University of Chicago University of Chicago	234.6	50.0
13	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	232.0	47.8
14	Tianjin University Tianjin University	229.9	77.7
15	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	227.3	42.7
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	225.2	56.5
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	224.6	53.2
18	Northwestern University Northwestern University	224.3	28.5
19	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	223.0	81.4
20	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong	222.3	37.5
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	221.6	71.1
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	219.9	49.8
23	Soochow University Soochow University	218.8	42.4
24	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	217.2	36.9
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London	215.9	55.2
26	Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan University of Technology	214.2	43.5
27	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	210.9	75.6
28	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	210.1	61.9
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	210.0	46.2
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford	208.6	40.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020