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	Harvard University Harvard University	316.6	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	268.5	76.1
3	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	253.2	73.5
4	Stanford University Stanford University	253.1	68.9
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	246.6	65.4
6	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	243.6	63.8
7	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	240.7	63.6
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	239.0	71.6
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	239.0	62.8
10	Cornell University Cornell University	235.0	65.1
11	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	232.5	67.8
12	University of Washington University of Washington	229.5	59.5
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	228.7	58.9
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	227.6	75.0
15	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	227.4	56.3
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	226.4	69.8
16	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	226.4	65.9
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	224.2	60.1
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	223.7	64.9
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	222.7	58.1
21	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	222.6	58.9
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto	222.4	59.1
23	Imperial College London Imperial College London	220.2	59.6
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	218.3	70.1
24	University College London University College London	218.3	61.2
26	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	217.5	65.7
27	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	217.3	56.6
28	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	213.5	56.4
29	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	213.4	54.6
30	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	213.3	56.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020