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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	337.5	96.6	78.7	75.3	100.0	47.1
2	University of Washington University of Washington United States	331.9	71.7	78.9	68.5	67.6	100.0
3	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	301.6	58.4	75.7	79.5	57.3	94.3
4	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	296.2	67.3	73.0	68.9	67.6	74.5
5	The University of Reading The University of Reading United Kingdom	290.2	71.7	78.5	81.4	68.4	55.3
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	286.1	76.1	80.2	79.2	80.6	33.3
7	Princeton University Princeton University United States	283.8	65.8	86.6	74.9	58.7	57.7
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	278.9	57.9	77.9	78.8	54.8	72.6
9	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	272.7	100.0	62.8	71.2	95.7	0.0
10	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	256.1	58.5	79.8	78.2	61.3	40.8
11	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	255.6	70.6	81.0	77.2	65.1	23.6
12	Columbia University Columbia University United States	251.3	77.3	87.1	79.4	71.0	0.0
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	249.7	58.5	83.5	85.6	49.8	40.8
14	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University France	243.6	75.4	75.6	93.4	73.9	0.0
15	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	242.2	51.4	70.6	91.4	54.8	47.1
16	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	241.5	70.3	89.0	90.8	63.9	0.0
16	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France	241.5	77.5	82.7	93.7	62.5	0.0
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	239.7	51.9	82.2	76.1	43.2	47.1
19	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	236.5	49.3	81.2	79.9	49.2	40.8
20	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	225.8	54.7	79.9	96.6	48.3	23.6
21	Harvard University Harvard University United States	225.5	63.8	85.0	83.0	60.1	0.0
21	Yale University Yale University United States	225.5	37.6	81.9	79.0	32.5	57.7
23	Peking University Peking University China	224.6	70.3	78.9	79.4	59.5	0.0
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	224.1	47.3	74.8	78.2	45.5	40.8
25	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	221.5	61.2	82.7	88.8	59.8	0.0
26	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	217.5	47.8	66.6	65.8	42.8	47.1
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	216.0	62.4	84.7	78.6	53.2	0.0
28	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	215.5	67.7	72.4	69.4	61.5	0.0
29	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	214.8	62.5	71.5	89.9	62.8	0.0
30	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	214.2	58.2	87.0	82.3	52.6	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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