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	376.4	100.0
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	324.8	61.9
3	Stanford University Stanford University	318.8	62.5
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	287.9	62.6
5	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	282.2	30.8
6	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	281.0	59.4
7	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	280.5	56.7
8	Columbia University Columbia University	277.8	49.3
9	University of Washington University of Washington	276.3	59.7
10	University College London University College London	268.2	56.7
11	Yale University Yale University	251.3	51.2
12	University of Oxford University of Oxford	249.5	64.4
13	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	247.9	38.3
14	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	241.1	50.2
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	237.3	49.5
16	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	230.7	48.1
17	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	230.4	31.0
18	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	221.4	27.5
19	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	216.8	59.4
20	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University	212.9	42.8
21	Princeton University Princeton University	208.6	30.7
22	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU	207.0	23.8
23	Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology	206.3	19.1
24	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	204.9	56.9
25	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	202.7	53.0
26	Cornell University Cornell University	200.3	57.2
27	Cardiff University Cardiff University	199.6	27.2
28	University of Toronto University of Toronto	198.9	58.6
29	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	197.1	46.5
30	University of Utah University of Utah	193.5	35.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020