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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	390.6	90.4
2	Princeton University Princeton University	352.6	74.6
3	Stanford University Stanford University	346.3	82.1
4	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	342.3	94.2
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	339.0	88.1
6	Harvard University Harvard University	335.3	95.8
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago	334.8	82.1
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	334.1	88.2
9	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	321.5	91.6
10	PSL University PSL University	315.9	80.1
11	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	298.2	91.0
12	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	298.1	63.5
13	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	289.8	60.5
14	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	289.4	58.7
15	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	288.7	100.0
16	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	284.3	60.7
17	University of Washington University of Washington	282.3	57.0
18	University of Geneva University of Geneva	277.2	61.9
19	Cornell University Cornell University	271.6	54.8
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	261.2	71.3
21	Columbia University Columbia University	259.6	59.2
22	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	258.4	73.2
23	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	257.9	61.2
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford	257.2	81.3
25	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	255.8	44.3
26	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	251.8	85.6
27	University of Paris University of Paris	250.7	76.8
28	The Australian National University The Australian National University	246.5	58.2
29	University of Munich University of Munich	244.8	61.7
30	University of Science and Technology of China	240.3	84.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020