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)

499 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	344.5	71.1
2	Stanford University Stanford University	332.1	58.2
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	327.0	74.7
4	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	300.6	54.4
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University	294.5	53.4
6	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	293.8	59.7
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	288.5	100.0
8	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	281.8	61.7
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	276.3	51.8
10	University of Alberta University of Alberta	274.3	52.7
11	Arizona State University Arizona State University	270.9	53.2
12	Princeton University Princeton University	269.5	41.0
13	Nanjing University Nanjing University	268.9	84.1
14	Peking University Peking University	267.8	84.2
15	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	263.0	43.7
16	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	258.7	57.0
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	255.3	70.1
17	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	255.3	57.9
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	245.6	50.3
20	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	242.1	53.2
21	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia	239.4	44.9
22	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	236.0	77.7
23	University of Cape Town University of Cape Town	235.1	34.8
24	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	233.9	42.7
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	233.1	76.1
26	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	232.8	76.2
27	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	229.6	64.5
28	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	228.7	52.7
29	Stockholm University Stockholm University	223.4	56.9
30	University of Toronto University of Toronto	223.0	58.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020