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	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	296.9	90.6
2	Griffith University Griffith University	278.3	100.0
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	265.6	82.0
4	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	264.1	97.4
5	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	260.3	92.5
6	Monash University Monash University	252.0	93.8
7	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	251.1	75.6
8	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	246.7	77.7
9	University of Southampton University of Southampton	245.4	55.5
10	University of Sydney University of Sydney	243.3	91.7
11	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	242.4	91.0
12	Ghent University Ghent University	239.7	71.6
13	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	235.2	69.0
14	King's College London King's College London	234.5	67.5
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	232.6	63.9
16	KU Leuven KU Leuven	231.8	63.9
17	University of Toronto University of Toronto	227.5	78.5
18	Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University	226.4	68.4
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	225.7	59.0
20	Emory University Emory University	224.0	66.0
21	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	223.5	56.6
22	Maastricht University Maastricht University	222.3	55.9
23	Yale University Yale University	221.4	70.7
24	University of Washington University of Washington	219.2	67.2
25	University of Leeds University of Leeds	219.0	55.1
26	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	218.2	71.0
27	Uppsala University Uppsala University	218.0	76.2
28	Duke University Duke University	217.5	73.8
29	New York University New York University	217.2	62.6
30	Deakin University Deakin University	213.9	72.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020