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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Xidian University Xidian University	283.0	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	281.8	94.3
3	Southeast University Southeast University	281.2	95.1
4	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	271.7	93.5
5	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	270.5	95.5
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	246.8	73.1
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	245.4	80.4
8	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	237.5	62.4
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	234.5	72.3
10	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	230.3	56.8
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	228.6	57.2
12	University of Southampton University of Southampton	227.2	61.1
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	226.9	68.7
14	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	221.4	60.3
15	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	218.5	64.3
16	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	217.3	57.5
17	University of Houston University of Houston	212.9	49.3
18	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	211.7	53.0
19	Carleton University Carleton University	211.0	46.9
20	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	210.0	52.7
21	University of Sydney University of Sydney	209.2	48.6
22	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	207.9	61.7
23	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	207.5	58.7
24	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications	205.9	60.6
25	Singapore University of Technology & Design	205.8	48.5
26	Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London	205.5	45.2
27	Beihang University Beihang University	205.4	62.9
27	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	205.4	47.8
29	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	205.3	48.5
30	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	203.9	58.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020