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	Harvard University Harvard University	399.3	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	307.0	79.4
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	301.4	71.1
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	290.4	74.3
5	Columbia University Columbia University	281.5	71.1
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	276.2	74.2
7	Duke University Duke University	272.8	70.3
8	University of Chicago University of Chicago	265.6	65.9
9	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	264.8	68.7
10	Princeton University Princeton University	263.7	59.0
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	259.6	62.1
12	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	251.4	56.5
13	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	247.2	55.3
14	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	243.9	62.6
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	237.1	63.0
16	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	232.4	75.9
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	228.1	55.3
18	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	225.5	61.0
19	University of Washington University of Washington	217.8	69.8
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	216.9	66.8
21	University of Oxford University of Oxford	202.0	70.9
22	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	199.9	60.5
23	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	199.6	63.0
24	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	195.2	55.3
25	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	193.9	52.6
26	University College London University College London	193.5	66.6
27	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	190.7	47.1
28	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	189.3	47.6
29	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	188.8	56.7
30	Yale University Yale University	186.4	58.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020