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)	357.4	66.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University	308.1	62.4
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	291.3	51.8
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	283.6	60.2
5	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	271.3	59.7
6	Harvard University Harvard University	260.3	62.4
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	257.7	100.0
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	243.1	88.1
9	University of Toronto University of Toronto	237.5	50.1
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	236.4	48.8
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	232.7	46.8
12	Princeton University Princeton University	232.1	40.4
13	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	222.7	64.9
14	Cornell University Cornell University	221.5	42.1
15	University of Southern California University of Southern California	220.8	49.3
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	219.0	46.0
17	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	218.0	41.7
18	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	217.9	72.0
19	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	217.0	83.2
20	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	210.5	84.5
21	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	209.7	82.7
22	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	209.6	61.5
23	University College London University College London	207.8	57.8
24	Peking University Peking University	207.1	63.1
25	University of Science and Technology of China	206.4	64.3
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	205.3	56.5
27	New York University New York University	205.0	43.2
28	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	204.1	86.0
29	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	203.8	55.1
30	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	201.8	74.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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