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	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	282.5	100.0	76.6	46.4	96.6	0.0
2	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	278.1	42.7	68.6	75.8	90.5	61.2
3	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	271.9	39.1	71.8	65.5	64.9	82.9
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	268.3	87.5	70.1	53.3	100.0	0.0
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	263.7	93.1	68.1	49.2	92.7	0.0
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	259.7	32.6	76.7	61.8	67.3	70.7
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	249.9	21.5	70.8	71.3	49.8	93.5
8	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	249.3	23.8	68.9	76.6	47.8	93.5
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	248.0	38.3	75.0	70.7	70.5	50.0
10	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	247.4	26.4	72.4	87.0	31.2	100.0
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	241.4	84.5	69.7	49.3	77.2	0.0
12	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	230.9	52.6	78.7	75.4	84.5	0.0
13	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	225.1	72.5	75.1	47.5	68.0	0.0
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	223.4	28.7	68.5	69.4	51.1	61.2
15	Beihang University Beihang University China	223.1	72.6	70.3	46.7	70.9	0.0
16	Harvard University Harvard University United States	222.1	17.4	73.0	70.8	31.0	86.6
17	University of Science and Technology of China China	220.8	60.5	80.5	53.6	69.0	0.0
18	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	220.4	45.8	65.0	71.4	45.3	50.0
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	218.4	24.3	67.0	60.4	40.0	75.0
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	215.8	45.1	70.7	69.4	61.1	25.0
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	210.4	44.0	67.7	66.7	60.3	25.0
22	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	208.6	53.4	67.9	62.4	74.7	0.0
23	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	206.3	68.8	69.1	55.1	57.4	0.0
23	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	206.3	30.2	71.2	79.1	45.8	43.3
25	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	206.1	58.2	86.7	57.5	49.8	0.0
26	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	206.0	61.1	65.7	53.3	68.5	0.0
27	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	203.4	65.7	72.9	50.1	54.8	0.0
28	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	203.1	39.1	61.5	47.8	49.6	43.3
29	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	200.9	63.1	65.8	52.3	61.5	0.0
30	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	200.4	39.1	79.2	89.1	64.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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