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	Aarhus University Aarhus University	305.8	100.0
2	Utrecht University Utrecht University	263.4	91.6
3	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	257.0	88.4
4	Cardiff University Cardiff University	248.2	78.8
5	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	246.2	78.1
6	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	235.2	71.1
7	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	232.9	74.3
8	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	226.0	69.5
9	Leiden University Leiden University	224.6	76.6
10	Arizona State University Arizona State University	222.5	67.0
11	London School of Economics and Political Science	212.9	80.9
12	Harvard University Harvard University	211.6	72.7
13	Rutgers University-Newark Rutgers University-Newark	205.1	60.6
14	Florida State University Florida State University	203.9	58.7
15	University College London University College London	201.0	71.1
16	Tilburg University Tilburg University	199.1	57.7
17	University of Exeter University of Exeter	198.9	60.6
18	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	195.7	61.6
19	American University American University	193.6	61.6
20	University of Antwerp University of Antwerp	190.8	64.3
21	Syracuse University Syracuse University	189.7	56.7
22	Bocconi University Bocconi University	189.2	57.7
23	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	188.4	67.0
24	University of Oslo University of Oslo	187.1	64.3
25	University of Bern University of Bern	183.5	58.7
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven	183.2	60.6
27	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	182.5	54.7
28	University of Warwick University of Warwick	181.0	53.6
29	University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg	177.2	59.7
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford	176.6	65.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020