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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	311.0	99.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	295.4	100.0
3	Peking University Peking University	287.0	95.8
4	University of Science and Technology of China	280.6	93.0
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	278.6	84.3
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	277.3	85.0
7	Stanford University Stanford University	276.6	78.6
8	Soochow University Soochow University	274.1	87.1
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	270.0	85.5
10	Harvard University Harvard University	266.2	76.3
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	265.9	77.2
12	Fudan University Fudan University	250.3	78.8
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	249.8	79.9
14	Northwestern University Northwestern University	245.5	71.0
15	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	244.5	80.5
16	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	241.5	68.9
17	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	239.5	61.7
18	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	238.1	74.3
19	Nanjing University Nanjing University	237.5	79.2
20	Seoul National University Seoul National University	237.3	78.7
21	Rice University Rice University	235.1	59.4
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago	232.8	71.7
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	231.1	64.1
24	Jilin University Jilin University	230.0	78.5
25	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	227.6	63.3
26	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	226.9	59.0
27	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	226.0	62.1
28	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University	225.4	73.9
29	Tianjin University Tianjin University	225.0	68.1
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford	224.6	56.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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