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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	344.1	64.3	78.1	69.2	95.3	92.6
2	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	310.9	50.5	62.2	65.0	85.1	100.0
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	299.1	55.9	85.1	78.3	76.9	65.5
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	284.9	52.4	75.2	65.3	68.6	75.6
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	284.4	85.4	82.3	87.9	99.1	0.0
6	Stanford University Stanford University United States	278.9	43.7	80.1	59.1	58.7	84.5
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	277.0	30.6	83.7	64.9	49.7	100.0
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	276.8	100.0	79.7	56.9	85.8	0.0
9	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	275.1	51.6	68.2	83.8	73.1	65.5
10	Harvard University Harvard University United States	274.0	41.3	100.0	73.1	52.5	65.5
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	268.8	59.1	63.3	62.2	80.6	53.5
12	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	266.8	73.8	92.8	57.4	88.7	0.0
13	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia Australia	262.2	46.0	63.6	88.3	69.5	65.5
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	260.4	43.9	62.0	76.5	54.7	84.5
15	University of Groningen University of Groningen Netherlands	250.5	40.7	66.4	80.0	73.9	53.5
16	Southeast University Southeast University China	245.0	76.3	88.9	64.0	67.0	0.0
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	242.4	83.7	76.1	61.6	70.3	0.0
18	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	242.3	36.7	69.8	73.0	67.8	53.5
19	Beihang University Beihang University China	241.0	84.6	76.3	55.2	69.1	0.0
20	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	239.0	55.7	66.4	84.5	100.0	0.0
21	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	237.2	39.0	58.4	88.5	68.6	53.5
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	226.7	76.1	70.6	58.9	68.2	0.0
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	225.6	55.9	86.4	62.9	70.7	0.0
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	222.5	46.7	72.9	77.3	87.4	0.0
25	The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide Australia	222.2	45.3	100.0	96.2	57.7	0.0
25	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	222.2	30.6	60.0	82.4	49.7	65.5
27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	220.4	72.7	64.7	51.3	72.7	0.0
28	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	219.6	75.8	69.4	46.5	65.2	0.0
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	219.5	27.8	61.7	68.0	40.8	75.6
30	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	216.3	65.1	80.2	82.2	54.7	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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