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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	290.4	100.0	76.4	70.1	100.0
2	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	283.1	75.8	93.9	88.4	95.7
3	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	282.3	91.6	95.2	88.5	77.8
4	University College London University College London United Kingdom	266.6	83.3	84.2	72.0	84.8
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	265.6	86.9	78.9	70.9	85.6
6	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	257.8	83.0	84.1	68.9	76.9
7	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	257.2	72.8	84.4	76.5	84.8
8	Durham University Durham University United Kingdom	247.8	80.3	80.0	71.9	73.2
9	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield United Kingdom	246.3	73.7	80.5	67.0	78.7
10	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	243.2	66.8	84.3	66.9	78.7
11	Newcastle University Newcastle University United Kingdom	242.4	63.7	79.8	62.7	86.4
11	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	242.4	73.1	83.3	78.5	70.2
13	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	239.8	68.8	85.0	74.1	71.2
14	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	238.4	64.9	89.6	88.9	66.1
15	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	236.4	74.9	87.9	65.4	60.5
16	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	233.9	75.4	88.7	76.8	54.4
17	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	232.7	74.9	75.9	79.4	66.1
18	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	228.8	57.2	83.2	53.0	77.8
19	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	227.1	74.4	80.8	87.9	54.4
20	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	226.9	68.8	72.3	68.5	72.2
21	University of Washington University of Washington United States	225.7	63.2	92.1	67.1	56.9
22	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	225.2	56.5	87.6	75.2	66.1
23	Cardiff University Cardiff University United Kingdom	222.4	55.8	78.6	60.1	76.0
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	222.3	68.4	80.0	66.8	60.5
25	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	220.2	65.1	87.5	72.8	53.1
26	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	219.5	63.9	84.6	64.4	58.1
26	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	219.5	60.5	83.4	87.1	58.1
28	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	219.4	77.1	84.3	93.1	39.4
29	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	219.0	64.7	77.7	69.4	62.8
30	Lund University Lund University Sweden	217.7	62.8	86.5	83.3	51.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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