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	Harvard University Harvard University	292.6	100.0
2	University College London University College London	232.2	65.7
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	230.9	69.0
4	University of Toronto University of Toronto	224.4	65.9
5	Stanford University Stanford University	215.6	61.0
6	King's College London King's College London	213.9	54.6
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford	209.7	52.3
8	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	206.0	47.4
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	204.9	56.2
10	Utrecht University Utrecht University	204.5	55.4
11	Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine	202.7	55.8
12	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	201.8	52.4
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	201.3	56.7
14	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	196.9	48.6
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London	195.1	44.6
16	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	195.0	51.4
17	Duke University Duke University	194.5	50.6
18	University of Munich University of Munich	193.8	49.5
19	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	193.0	52.9
20	New York University New York University	190.2	49.6
20	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	190.2	44.7
22	University of Zurich University of Zurich	189.9	49.5
23	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	187.8	47.3
24	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	187.7	44.1
25	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna	187.5	45.7
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven	186.1	42.8
27	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	185.9	46.3
28	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	185.2	46.1
29	Yale University Yale University	183.9	45.6
30	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin	182.9	47.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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