2020 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began publishing the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009. Building on this foundation, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was introduced in 2017 with an enhanced methodology.The 2024 edition of GRAS evaluates universities in 55 subjects across five broad fields: Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. Among more than 5,000 universities worldwide, over 1,900 institutions from 96 countries and regions are presented.GRAS relies on a comprehensive set of objective academic indicators and independent third-party data to assess performance at the subject level. The evaluation spans five major dimensions: 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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	390.1	90.1
2	Stanford University Stanford University	350.6	82.5
3	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	343.1	94.8
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	342.6	90.3
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	338.9	87.6
6	University of Chicago University of Chicago	337.6	82.9
7	Harvard University Harvard University	336.6	96.5
8	Princeton University Princeton University	336.3	73.9
9	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	319.7	89.4
10	PSL University PSL University	319.1	81.1
11	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	301.6	63.2
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	296.2	61.5
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	291.7	58.9
14	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	291.3	100.0
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	289.1	60.9
16	University of Washington University of Washington	285.2	57.0
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	272.1	92.1
18	Cornell University Cornell University	268.5	54.1
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	264.4	62.4
20	University of Oxford University of Oxford	263.6	81.6
21	Columbia University Columbia University	259.9	59.2
22	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	259.6	73.5
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	259.6	71.2
24	University of Paris University of Paris	255.7	77.8
25	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	255.2	44.1
26	University of Munich University of Munich	252.3	61.9
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	246.5	82.0
28	The Australian National University The Australian National University	245.7	58.4
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	243.9	65.5
30	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	241.7	72.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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