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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	300.2	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	267.4	75.8
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	249.0	65.4
4	Fudan University Fudan University	245.1	54.5
5	Soochow University Soochow University	230.5	48.4
6	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	230.1	61.8
7	Stanford University Stanford University	227.9	68.2
8	Peking University Peking University	223.0	56.7
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	222.0	57.7
10	Seoul National University Seoul National University	221.2	58.4
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	221.1	63.6
12	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	218.7	62.5
13	Sichuan University Sichuan University	215.6	52.2
14	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	215.4	57.5
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	205.2	49.6
16	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	204.6	57.7
16	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	204.6	57.4
18	Imperial College London Imperial College London	204.0	59.3
19	Korea University Korea University	203.6	48.7
20	Columbia University Columbia University	200.4	50.2
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	199.4	52.6
22	Utrecht University Utrecht University	198.3	49.0
23	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	197.8	31.7
24	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	197.5	49.1
25	University College London University College London	197.1	64.1
26	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	196.5	54.0
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto	195.1	59.3
28	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	194.5	51.3
29	University of Science and Technology of China	192.4	33.7
30	Emory University Emory University	191.2	46.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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