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	296.5	100.0
2	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	234.6	60.8
3	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	221.0	64.2
4	University of Oxford University of Oxford	220.4	62.7
5	University College London University College London	219.5	72.0
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	218.7	55.5
7	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	215.6	68.5
7	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	215.6	81.9
9	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	214.6	75.0
10	University of Toronto University of Toronto	214.0	73.7
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	213.3	42.8
12	Yale University Yale University	212.4	56.6
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	210.0	55.5
14	University of Paris University of Paris	208.7	70.5
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London	208.1	63.3
16	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	207.0	72.6
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	207.0	52.1
18	Monash University Monash University	206.3	73.3
19	Duke University Duke University	201.9	55.3
20	Utrecht University Utrecht University	201.1	70.7
21	King's College London King's College London	198.5	61.2
22	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	198.1	40.4
23	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	196.8	50.5
24	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	195.5	61.6
25	Uppsala University Uppsala University	194.9	57.7
26	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	194.8	60.8
27	Stanford University Stanford University	192.3	49.5
28	University of Washington University of Washington	192.0	59.2
29	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	191.7	66.7
30	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	191.0	59.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020