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	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	301.2	95.1
2	University of Arizona University of Arizona	290.0	84.5
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	279.2	96.6
4	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	278.5	89.2
5	Wuhan University Wuhan University	273.5	92.3
6	Hohai University Hohai University	271.5	99.5
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	268.0	93.1
8	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	262.7	88.6
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	254.3	100.0
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	248.9	73.4
11	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	248.6	91.5
12	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	246.5	76.5
13	University of Bristol University of Bristol	245.9	67.3
13	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	245.9	54.3
15	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	243.9	74.5
16	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	241.8	66.0
17	Flinders University Flinders University	240.8	66.5
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	240.4	66.4
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	238.8	69.7
20	Princeton University Princeton University	238.6	51.4
21	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	238.5	91.3
22	University of Padua University of Padua	235.3	61.9
23	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	234.1	84.0
24	Imperial College London Imperial College London	231.8	67.4
25	Nanjing University Nanjing University	230.1	76.7
26	Utrecht University Utrecht University	224.3	64.5
27	Stanford University Stanford University	222.6	65.8
28	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	221.0	78.7
29	Cornell University Cornell University	220.1	58.6
30	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	219.4	48.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020