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	New York University New York University	296.1	100.0
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	292.8	94.6
3	University of Chicago University of Chicago	287.3	90.3
4	Harvard University Harvard University	268.2	81.9
5	Columbia University Columbia University	262.4	87.4
6	Stanford University Stanford University	254.5	81.1
7	Boston College Boston College	253.3	78.6
8	University of Southern California University of Southern California	248.1	77.4
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	246.8	80.3
10	London Business School London Business School	246.7	74.8
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	245.4	84.3
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	243.6	83.5
13	Northwestern University Northwestern University	241.6	76.5
14	Duke University Duke University	239.7	70.2
15	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	237.3	72.1
16	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	234.4	79.9
17	Cornell University Cornell University	232.9	78.2
18	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	231.0	79.5
19	London School of Economics and Political Science	229.7	76.5
20	University of Washington University of Washington	228.4	72.1
21	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	228.1	86.6
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	224.8	69.3
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	219.9	69.8
24	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	217.5	68.8
25	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	215.5	67.4
26	Arizona State University Arizona State University	212.1	73.9
27	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	210.3	69.8
28	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	208.0	60.7
29	Tilburg University Tilburg University	204.5	65.4
30	Singapore Management University Singapore Management University	204.2	66.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020