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	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	303.9	96.4
2	Griffith University Griffith University	274.4	100.0
3	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute	270.1	99.3
4	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	265.1	96.2
5	King's College London King's College London	263.9	73.5
6	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	260.4	85.2
7	Ghent University Ghent University	257.7	78.7
8	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	257.0	85.7
9	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	252.6	95.2
10	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	248.2	81.8
11	University of Southampton University of Southampton	248.0	55.8
12	University of Sydney University of Sydney	242.5	92.3
13	Maastricht University Maastricht University	238.8	58.7
14	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	237.0	70.5
15	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	235.9	61.8
16	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen	235.4	61.8
17	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology	235.2	71.9
18	Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University	232.6	75.9
19	Monash University Monash University	232.3	89.4
20	KU Leuven KU Leuven	231.7	62.9
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto	229.6	83.0
22	New York University New York University	227.7	67.2
23	University of Washington University of Washington	226.3	72.5
24	Yale University Yale University	225.1	70.9
25	Chang Gung University Chang Gung University	220.6	59.5
26	Emory University Emory University	219.3	71.9
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	219.3	81.6
28	Uppsala University Uppsala University	218.0	75.0
29	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	217.2	64.0
30	University of Alberta University of Alberta	214.2	67.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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