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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Tongji University Tongji University	364.8	100.0
2	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	286.4	56.1
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	274.6	89.6
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	246.1	46.8
5	Polytechnic University of Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid	240.2	49.9
6	Lehigh University Lehigh University	239.5	26.1
7	National Technical University of Athens National Technical University of Athens	234.8	43.3
8	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	231.9	64.7
9	University of Canterbury University of Canterbury	231.3	25.9
10	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	224.1	63.5
11	Southeast University Southeast University	223.6	76.6
12	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	216.9	60.4
12	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	216.9	33.9
14	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	215.7	78.2
15	Western University Western University	212.5	34.4
16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	210.1	51.9
17	Hunan University Hunan University	208.8	57.5
18	Colorado State University Colorado State University	205.7	34.2
19	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	205.2	55.7
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	205.2	51.6
21	University of Sydney University of Sydney	204.2	52.3
22	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	203.4	31.5
23	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	202.3	68.9
24	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	201.4	55.7
25	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide	200.8	44.6
26	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	197.4	55.7
27	The University of Auckland The University of Auckland	196.5	42.4
28	Tianjin University Tianjin University	195.6	68.4
29	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	193.8	39.2
30	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	193.3	45.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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