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)

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	301.6	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	257.3	62.0
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	254.4	68.7
4	King's College London King's College London	235.8	55.4
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	228.3	52.4
6	University College London University College London	223.9	64.8
7	New York University New York University	222.8	50.5
8	University of Toronto University of Toronto	218.5	65.9
9	Utrecht University Utrecht University	215.5	54.0
10	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	213.6	51.7
11	Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine	207.5	57.6
12	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	206.2	54.3
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	204.5	56.7
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	203.7	38.9
15	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	202.3	36.6
16	Duke University Duke University	201.6	50.5
17	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	199.4	52.5
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	195.8	46.7
19	University of Zurich University of Zurich	195.5	48.0
20	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	194.9	47.8
21	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	192.3	48.8
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	191.8	33.7
23	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	191.5	41.4
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	190.3	42.9
25	Leiden University Leiden University	187.7	46.7
26	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	186.1	40.4
27	Imperial College London Imperial College London	183.0	43.4
28	Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University	182.4	32.5
29	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	181.7	37.7
30	University of Lausanne University of Lausanne	179.9	36.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020