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	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	282.8	100.0
2	Beihang University Beihang University	258.9	92.6
3	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	255.4	87.8
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	251.0	88.4
5	Jilin University Jilin University	239.3	76.6
6	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	233.5	68.6
7	Southeast University Southeast University	233.2	75.3
8	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	232.1	76.6
9	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	222.8	74.5
10	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	220.9	72.2
11	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	217.4	66.0
12	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	216.3	69.2
13	Tianjin University Tianjin University	215.6	71.2
14	Chongqing University Chongqing University	214.5	66.1
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	213.5	71.1
16	Wuhan University Wuhan University	212.7	71.1
17	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	209.5	67.6
18	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	209.3	64.4
19	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	208.6	65.4
20	Aalborg University Aalborg University	206.8	44.8
21	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University	198.4	39.3
22	Hanyang University Hanyang University	196.1	54.1
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	196.1	54.7
24	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	193.3	50.9
25	Central South University Central South University	192.7	55.0
26	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	190.6	52.0
27	Hunan University Hunan University	190.1	51.0
28	Seoul National University Seoul National University	189.4	55.2
29	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	188.6	54.7
30	University of Science and Technology of China	187.2	58.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020