2020 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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	290.4	44.5
2	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	280.2	100.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	269.8	88.1
4	Stanford University Stanford University	268.9	33.2
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	259.6	93.9
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University	258.7	28.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	256.8	23.6
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	256.6	40.6
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	251.7	25.1
10	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	249.7	40.0
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	233.9	81.9
12	Imperial College London Imperial College London	233.5	52.6
13	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	228.2	73.7
14	Harvard University Harvard University	228.0	19.0
15	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	226.8	31.4
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	225.7	26.1
16	University of Science and Technology of China	225.7	59.4
18	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	225.4	49.7
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	224.7	48.4
20	Beihang University Beihang University	219.2	71.5
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	214.8	45.4
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	211.8	31.6
23	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	209.5	42.1
24	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	205.5	54.3
25	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	204.5	38.7
26	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	203.8	61.8
27	Princeton University Princeton University	203.6	34.3
28	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	202.6	55.7
29	Tianjin University Tianjin University	201.3	66.8
30	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	201.1	63.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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