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	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	376.9	73.5
2	Stanford University Stanford University	358.5	68.2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	356.1	74.8
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	338.1	68.3
5	Harvard University Harvard University	326.8	62.0
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	323.9	46.1
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago	295.2	72.5
8	University of Science and Technology of China	293.7	99.6
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	293.2	68.9
10	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	292.4	68.5
11	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	285.0	86.2
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	282.2	57.6
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	281.8	68.5
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	279.8	100.0
15	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	274.2	71.3
16	Peking University Peking University	273.0	89.8
17	Columbia University Columbia University	262.5	43.9
18	Kyoto University Kyoto University	262.3	74.8
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	261.0	67.0
20	Nankai University Nankai University	258.2	82.6
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	256.5	76.1
22	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	253.5	51.0
23	Nanjing University Nanjing University	251.6	87.0
24	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	251.5	54.8
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	250.0	93.2
26	Soochow University Soochow University	249.5	86.0
27	Fudan University Fudan University	245.7	79.6
28	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	245.5	51.5
29	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	244.2	60.8
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	238.8	43.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020