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	Southeast University Southeast University	293.1	97.9
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	291.6	95.9
3	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	290.0	100.0
4	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	254.8	79.2
5	Xidian University Xidian University	251.6	74.7
6	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	251.4	82.6
7	Tongji University Tongji University	249.2	81.6
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	243.8	72.7
9	Beihang University Beihang University	238.0	68.8
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	237.5	74.9
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	235.4	67.8
12	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	234.3	64.4
13	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	233.5	67.3
14	University of Sydney University of Sydney	232.9	72.6
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	228.8	64.7
16	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	226.8	61.9
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	226.4	66.9
18	University of Leeds University of Leeds	223.3	65.5
19	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	218.6	66.3
20	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	218.4	65.5
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	216.0	60.2
22	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	213.2	60.2
23	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	213.1	60.2
24	University of Southampton University of Southampton	212.9	63.2
25	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	212.8	57.3
26	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	210.7	56.3
27	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	210.5	55.6
28	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	209.4	58.4
29	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	209.1	61.1
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	208.9	55.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020