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)

399 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	337.5	96.6
2	University of Washington University of Washington	331.9	71.7
3	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	301.6	58.4
4	Colorado State University Colorado State University	296.2	67.3
5	The University of Reading The University of Reading	290.2	71.7
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	286.1	76.1
7	Princeton University Princeton University	283.8	65.8
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	278.9	57.9
9	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	272.7	100.0
10	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	256.1	58.5
11	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	255.6	70.6
12	Columbia University Columbia University	251.3	77.3
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford	249.7	58.5
14	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	243.6	75.4
15	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	242.2	51.4
16	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	241.5	70.3
16	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	241.5	77.5
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	239.7	51.9
19	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	236.5	49.3
20	Stockholm University Stockholm University	225.8	54.7
21	Harvard University Harvard University	225.5	63.8
21	Yale University Yale University	225.5	37.6
23	Peking University Peking University	224.6	70.3
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	224.1	47.3
25	University of Leeds University of Leeds	221.5	61.2
26	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	217.5	47.8
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	216.0	62.4
28	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	215.5	67.7
29	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	214.8	62.5
30	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	214.2	58.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020