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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	329.6	54.0	79.6	74.5	94.5	86.6
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	310.6	43.2	84.8	72.5	68.1	100.0
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	310.0	45.2	85.0	76.0	100.0	64.5
4	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	270.2	54.0	79.1	69.7	73.2	50.0
5	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	247.3	45.3	74.1	67.8	56.7	57.7
6	Princeton University Princeton University United States	246.5	37.8	98.2	81.0	65.5	28.9
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	242.0	100.0	79.6	62.1	50.0	0.0
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	237.3	81.4	85.2	85.9	53.5	0.0
9	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	223.9	33.5	78.6	59.0	42.3	57.7
10	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	222.6	31.5	77.3	69.1	50.0	50.0
11	Harvard University Harvard University United States	217.7	33.1	81.5	79.9	46.3	40.8
12	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	215.8	83.1	83.4	57.0	37.8	0.0
13	Aalborg University Aalborg University Denmark	213.7	60.5	98.0	87.5	37.8	0.0
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	212.0	60.3	92.7	84.1	42.3	0.0
15	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	209.7	35.9	85.8	74.2	73.2	0.0
16	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	208.3	45.0	87.0	82.6	59.8	0.0
17	Southeast University Southeast University China	207.1	88.2	80.3	59.3	26.7	0.0
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	202.5	82.5	75.0	61.6	32.7	0.0
19	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	201.4	43.6	82.7	76.6	59.8	0.0
20	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	201.0	27.4	90.7	69.8	18.9	50.0
21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	200.8	41.7	74.6	81.7	68.1	0.0
22	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	200.2	40.0	81.1	68.4	65.5	0.0
22	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	200.2	53.1	84.5	81.7	46.3	0.0
24	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	200.1	47.1	86.0	67.7	53.5	0.0
25	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	199.8	50.9	73.0	66.2	62.7	0.0
26	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	199.7	77.1	72.7	60.2	37.8	0.0
27	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	199.3	78.1	77.1	57.3	32.7	0.0
28	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	198.8	90.0	70.6	57.3	26.7	0.0
29	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	198.0	52.5	82.9	82.1	46.3	0.0
30	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	195.4	44.5	83.3	71.0	53.5	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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