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)	355.3	61.1
2	Stanford University Stanford University	315.6	55.6
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	284.4	46.9
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	279.9	55.7
5	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	264.0	52.9
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	263.9	100.0
7	Harvard University Harvard University	252.4	57.4
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	243.1	86.8
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	234.2	47.3
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	226.2	41.7
11	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	224.6	67.5
12	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	223.8	90.8
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto	223.1	46.5
14	Princeton University Princeton University	222.5	36.2
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	219.8	68.6
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	218.9	86.7
17	University of Southern California University of Southern California	217.1	45.8
18	Cornell University Cornell University	216.4	38.2
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	216.2	86.0
20	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	214.7	40.5
21	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	214.1	88.9
22	Peking University Peking University	213.3	64.6
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	210.4	89.8
24	Beihang University Beihang University	210.2	85.8
24	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	210.2	58.6
24	University of Science and Technology of China	210.2	67.1
27	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	209.1	39.9
28	Xidian University Xidian University	208.4	93.0
29	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	206.5	40.9
30	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	204.1	54.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020