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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	332.3	57.6
2	Stanford University Stanford University	326.4	47.2
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	311.3	48.0
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	273.5	56.4
5	Princeton University Princeton University	258.4	39.8
6	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	257.0	50.1
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	242.5	100.0
8	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	232.9	35.2
9	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	229.3	35.4
10	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	227.8	49.0
11	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	224.8	83.7
12	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	224.7	47.1
13	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	218.4	79.4
14	Aalborg University Aalborg University	217.8	59.1
15	Harvard University Harvard University	217.4	33.7
16	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	215.5	45.8
17	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	213.0	38.5
17	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	213.0	47.5
19	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	211.9	63.8
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	211.3	28.7
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	206.8	46.9
22	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	206.1	43.1
23	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	206.0	53.7
24	University College London University College London	205.0	44.2
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	204.1	81.0
26	New York University New York University	202.9	33.2
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	202.9	47.7
28	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	202.1	48.5
29	Columbia University Columbia University	201.1	36.8
29	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	201.1	76.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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