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 Amsterdam University of Amsterdam	298.8	100.0
2	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	274.6	83.5
3	Michigan State University Michigan State University	251.5	78.5
4	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	249.6	80.5
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	225.9	67.0
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	225.7	67.4
7	University of Vienna University of Vienna	224.2	67.0
8	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	224.1	61.5
9	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	223.1	64.1
10	Cornell University Cornell University	211.8	59.3
11	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington	209.5	59.7
12	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	209.3	56.5
13	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	208.0	59.3
14	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	206.2	63.2
15	Northwestern University Northwestern University	203.4	60.2
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford	201.4	61.5
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	201.1	58.8
18	University of Zurich University of Zurich	199.0	60.2
19	University of Southern California University of Southern California	197.3	54.5
20	University of Munich University of Munich	196.8	56.9
21	KU Leuven KU Leuven	193.3	54.0
22	The University of Georgia The University of Georgia	193.2	59.7
23	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	187.1	54.0
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	184.2	50.4
25	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	184.0	53.5
26	University of Missouri - Columbia University of Missouri - Columbia	183.8	56.9
27	Ghent University Ghent University	183.6	55.0
28	London School of Economics and Political Science	182.8	47.6
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	178.5	56.5
30	University of Arizona University of Arizona	177.5	52.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020