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	279.7	86.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University	262.3	72.6
3	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	257.2	89.3
4	University of Oxford University of Oxford	254.6	100.0
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	251.8	74.7
6	University of Toronto University of Toronto	244.1	79.1
7	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	240.9	86.5
8	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	236.8	86.9
9	Cornell University Cornell University	235.9	87.6
10	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	229.0	77.9
11	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	224.8	85.1
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	223.8	79.5
13	Duke University Duke University	223.4	63.1
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	221.9	73.1
15	Columbia University Columbia University	219.2	57.0
16	Princeton University Princeton University	215.7	60.7
17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	212.7	70.5
18	University of Chicago University of Chicago	212.1	62.2
19	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	209.4	67.8
20	Northwestern University Northwestern University	209.2	61.7
21	New York University New York University	203.7	61.7
22	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	193.0	64.1
23	London School of Economics and Political Science	192.2	71.4
24	University of Washington University of Washington	192.0	57.6
25	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	191.6	84.7
26	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	185.2	58.1
27	Yale University Yale University	185.1	47.6
28	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	182.8	60.2
29	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	175.3	53.7
30	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	173.0	63.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020