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)

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	353.6	100.0
2	University College London University College London	304.0	66.4
3	Columbia University Columbia University	298.6	51.0
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	290.3	46.3
5	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	274.8	25.7
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	243.9	50.3
7	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	243.3	36.9
8	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	239.3	33.4
9	University of Zurich University of Zurich	238.8	41.6
10	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	229.9	46.7
11	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	229.2	59.6
12	Stanford University Stanford University	227.8	55.3
13	Kyoto University Kyoto University	219.4	29.0
14	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	217.1	57.4
15	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	214.8	66.1
16	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	213.8	51.0
17	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	209.4	18.2
18	University of Oxford University of Oxford	209.0	57.9
19	Yale University Yale University	207.0	51.1
20	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	205.0	47.9
21	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	200.0	43.5
22	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	199.7	29.1
23	Cornell University Cornell University	198.3	42.8
24	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	198.2	52.4
25	University of Toronto University of Toronto	197.3	57.6
26	University of Washington University of Washington	196.6	52.2
27	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg	195.1	22.0
28	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	194.3	30.5
29	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	193.4	17.7
30	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	193.1	49.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020