2021 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.(Methodology)

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	328.5	89.4
2	Princeton University Princeton University	311.2	72.8
3	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	269.1	100.0
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	262.9	64.5
5	University of Oxford University of Oxford	256.2	80.5
6	Stanford University Stanford University	251.3	64.9
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	243.5	80.1
8	New York University New York University	243.1	61.9
9	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	234.1	72.3
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	227.2	67.3
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	219.7	63.7
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	218.4	71.5
13	PSL University PSL University	214.4	71.5
14	University of Bonn University of Bonn	212.8	65.8
15	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	209.3	58.6
16	Harvard University Harvard University	200.6	48.5
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London	199.5	71.8
18	University of Warwick University of Warwick	198.1	59.1
19	Stony Brook University Stony Brook University	197.6	44.7
20	University of Chicago University of Chicago	196.5	63.8
21	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	195.6	59.4
22	University of Paris University of Paris	189.1	67.7
23	Kyoto University Kyoto University	187.6	58.1
24	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	181.2	44.0
25	Columbia University Columbia University	178.9	56.7
26	University of Toronto University of Toronto	176.6	59.7
27	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	175.5	59.5
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	175.5	66.4
29	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	169.8	67.7
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University	169.3	47.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020