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)	366.4	75.2
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	356.2	70.1
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	346.2	72.9
4	Harvard University Harvard University	342.5	58.4
5	Northwestern University Northwestern University	336.9	64.9
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	329.4	66.5
7	Stanford University Stanford University	325.6	65.4
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	300.0	84.3
9	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	293.3	100.0
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	292.4	50.5
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	286.0	57.2
12	Peking University Peking University	279.9	81.1
13	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	273.7	59.3
14	University of Science and Technology of China	273.5	86.4
15	Soochow University Soochow University	258.5	77.9
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	258.2	75.1
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London	257.1	62.1
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	248.5	81.7
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	248.1	57.8
20	University of Oxford University of Oxford	247.6	56.3
21	Fudan University Fudan University	241.6	70.5
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	241.2	83.1
23	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	235.5	51.0
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	235.2	47.1
25	Seoul National University Seoul National University	234.2	72.6
26	Princeton University Princeton University	232.4	37.7
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	231.6	68.6
27	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	231.6	52.7
29	University of Chicago University of Chicago	231.1	71.7
30	Cornell University Cornell University	230.8	43.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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