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	273.5	59.6
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	271.4	100.0
3	Stanford University Stanford University	258.9	48.9
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	254.5	53.2
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	254.4	47.4
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	240.7	75.0
7	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	235.2	69.6
8	Peking University Peking University	233.6	53.7
9	University of Science and Technology of China	233.5	79.2
10	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	231.6	50.4
11	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	230.1	90.3
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	229.9	53.7
13	University of Chicago University of Chicago	229.7	51.0
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	228.2	54.1
15	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	227.9	43.0
16	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	223.7	45.7
17	Northwestern University Northwestern University	221.7	28.6
18	Tianjin University Tianjin University	221.5	77.6
19	Soochow University Soochow University	220.8	42.2
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London	219.9	55.1
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	218.2	71.0
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	216.3	58.6
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	216.3	79.6
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford	215.0	39.6
25	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	213.6	36.0
26	Seoul National University Seoul National University	211.4	50.6
27	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong	209.4	37.9
28	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	207.5	42.7
29	Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan University of Technology	206.9	42.8
30	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University	204.6	35.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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