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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	308.0	93.6
2	University of Arizona University of Arizona	294.9	85.8
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	275.6	95.2
3	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	275.6	86.7
5	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	269.9	86.2
6	Hohai University Hohai University	268.0	94.8
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	263.7	89.9
8	Wuhan University Wuhan University	260.3	82.5
9	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	258.0	74.1
10	University of Bristol University of Bristol	255.3	69.5
11	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	255.2	100.0
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	254.8	66.8
13	Flinders University Flinders University	251.5	70.2
14	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	246.7	74.6
14	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	246.7	53.5
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	246.4	66.8
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	244.7	69.5
18	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	244.1	82.2
19	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	242.7	87.9
20	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan	241.3	70.9
21	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	241.0	84.4
22	Princeton University Princeton University	240.6	50.1
23	University of Padua University of Padua	240.1	63.6
24	Utrecht University Utrecht University	232.8	65.1
25	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	232.6	64.5
26	Stanford University Stanford University	232.4	66.8
27	Imperial College London Imperial College London	231.8	65.5
28	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	231.2	49.1
29	University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen	225.5	55.7
30	Duke University Duke University	220.4	55.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.