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	Ghent University Ghent University	282.5	91.9
2	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	252.2	68.8
3	University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover	242.7	80.3
4	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	241.9	78.3
5	The Royal Veterinary College The Royal Veterinary College	241.7	96.3
6	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	241.1	82.6
7	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona	240.0	73.5
8	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna	234.9	77.9
9	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	233.6	100.0
10	University of Bern University of Bern	232.0	77.9
11	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	228.7	67.7
12	Complutense University of Madrid Complutense University of Madrid	228.0	67.0
13	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	227.4	57.8
14	Utrecht University Utrecht University	224.9	78.9
15	University of Sydney University of Sydney	224.8	73.9
16	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	223.3	54.8
17	Iowa State University Iowa State University	223.0	65.2
18	University of Guelph University of Guelph	222.9	83.6
19	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	220.9	58.6
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	219.3	71.5
21	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	219.2	64.1
22	Leibniz University Hannover Leibniz University Hannover	218.3	68.5
23	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	216.9	68.4
24	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	216.1	74.6
25	Yangzhou University Yangzhou University	215.6	51.5
26	University of Zurich University of Zurich	213.1	77.3
27	South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University	212.4	56.0
28	University of Liverpool University of Liverpool	210.7	73.0
29	Cornell University Cornell University	207.9	76.5
30	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	205.9	70.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020