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	284.3	100.0
2	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	217.6	76.6
3	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	211.0	60.7
4	University of Washington University of Washington	207.1	64.5
5	University College London University College London	203.3	59.7
6	Imperial College London Imperial College London	202.2	50.9
7	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	201.6	49.5
8	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	200.2	59.5
9	University of Bristol University of Bristol	198.2	38.3
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	197.5	54.3
11	University of Toronto University of Toronto	197.2	61.9
12	Columbia University Columbia University	189.6	54.9
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	187.5	47.0
14	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	184.7	64.0
15	Emory University Emory University	182.8	48.7
16	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	182.0	47.7
17	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	181.3	54.5
17	Utrecht University Utrecht University	181.3	42.3
19	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam	180.5	44.0
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	177.9	40.0
21	McGill University McGill University	176.7	43.1
22	Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University	175.6	24.7
23	Boston University Boston University	174.9	45.6
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	173.9	43.0
25	Yale University Yale University	173.8	50.7
26	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	173.7	37.1
27	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	173.3	52.0
28	King's College London King's College London	171.7	42.6
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	171.3	33.8
30	Stanford University Stanford University	169.6	46.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020