2021 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking first introduced the world university rankings by academic subjects in 2009, which was officially renamed the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in 2017. GRAS evaluates world universities across 57 subjects in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. GRAS is based on nine objective indicators grouped into five categories: World-Class Faculty, World-Class Research Output, High-Quality Research, Research Impact, and International Collaboration. Each year, GRAS presents around 20,000 subject units from approximately 2,000 universities across some 100 countries and regions.(See full Methodology)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	376.9	73.5	98.0	72.3	100.0	90.9
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	358.5	68.2	100.0	75.2	85.1	90.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	356.1	74.8	96.0	73.8	88.9	81.6
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	338.1	68.3	97.4	71.0	95.9	62.4
5	Harvard University Harvard University United States	326.8	62.0	94.6	79.9	79.3	75.0
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	323.9	46.1	95.5	66.4	69.0	100.0
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	295.2	72.5	89.2	69.8	88.5	31.2
8	University of Science and Technology of China China	293.7	99.6	94.4	49.9	89.7	0.0
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	293.2	68.9	88.5	86.9	83.1	35.4
10	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	292.4	68.5	81.6	80.1	81.9	44.5
11	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	285.0	86.2	100.0	85.8	81.6	0.0
12	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	282.2	57.6	92.1	66.6	69.9	49.3
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	281.8	68.5	98.8	80.8	57.4	40.8
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	279.8	100.0	92.0	51.7	77.4	0.0
15	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	274.2	71.3	71.5	55.5	91.4	28.9
16	Peking University Peking University China	273.0	89.8	88.6	51.7	84.3	0.0
17	Columbia University Columbia University United States	262.5	43.9	94.8	75.7	57.3	51.4
18	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	262.3	74.8	69.1	52.3	93.5	14.4
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	261.0	67.0	83.5	80.4	80.0	14.4
20	Nankai University Nankai University China	258.2	82.6	92.2	44.1	74.6	0.0
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	256.5	76.1	94.6	82.4	69.3	0.0
22	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	253.5	51.0	78.7	70.7	59.6	50.0
23	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	251.6	87.0	88.0	50.3	66.5	0.0
24	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	251.5	54.8	94.0	76.4	68.8	18.6
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	250.0	93.2	83.6	51.1	63.0	0.0
26	Soochow University Soochow University China	249.5	86.0	94.3	55.7	58.0	0.0
27	Fudan University Fudan University China	245.7	79.6	86.8	50.5	69.2	0.0
28	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	245.5	51.5	88.1	67.3	63.6	28.9
29	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	244.2	60.8	95.5	84.1	71.1	0.0
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	238.8	43.0	92.9	66.3	52.4	37.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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