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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	297.7	100.0
2	University College London University College London	236.6	76.1
3	Stanford University Stanford University	234.9	64.7
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	231.7	69.1
5	Yale University Yale University	227.3	69.2
6	Columbia University Columbia University	223.5	69.1
7	Northwestern University Northwestern University	221.9	63.3
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	220.1	70.0
9	New York University New York University	216.2	62.0
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	213.9	59.8
11	University of Chicago University of Chicago	209.1	50.3
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto	207.0	75.3
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	206.8	71.2
14	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	198.1	65.2
15	King's College London King's College London	195.4	69.3
15	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	195.4	57.0
17	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	194.2	64.9
18	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	193.0	57.2
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	192.5	63.9
20	Duke University Duke University	192.4	59.0
21	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	190.5	52.2
22	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	189.6	61.1
23	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	188.1	55.6
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	186.9	56.8
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	182.8	51.6
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	181.9	57.4
27	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	181.7	52.8
28	KU Leuven KU Leuven	180.5	56.6
29	University of Washington University of Washington	178.2	61.8
30	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	177.9	52.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020