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	Harvard University Harvard University United States	301.3	100.0	85.0	81.4	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	264.6	77.6	79.3	62.9	95.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	244.3	64.4	93.4	82.0	70.1
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	235.8	70.4	89.4	72.2	61.6
5	Fudan University Fudan University China	235.0	53.2	80.4	54.6	90.5
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	227.2	64.8	80.8	63.4	68.9
7	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	224.2	59.1	78.3	62.8	74.3
8	Soochow University Soochow University China	222.8	48.2	89.1	59.4	73.7
9	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	215.7	63.4	74.7	73.1	63.0
10	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	212.4	56.5	67.4	54.1	77.7
11	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	211.7	57.3	71.5	86.0	65.7
11	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	211.7	56.7	74.1	63.0	68.2
13	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	210.8	51.9	79.1	58.0	68.2
14	Peking University Peking University China	209.2	55.8	75.6	60.7	65.7
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	207.4	60.4	86.8	78.7	44.5
16	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	205.3	52.1	84.9	70.7	54.1
17	Korea University Korea University South Korea	203.8	49.5	80.4	72.0	59.5
18	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	203.0	39.6	100.0	67.0	50.0
19	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	201.9	49.7	96.9	79.4	39.4
20	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	201.4	56.7	78.4	60.3	54.1
21	Columbia University Columbia University United States	198.7	49.3	85.0	72.1	50.0
22	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	197.9	55.7	79.9	61.6	50.0
23	University College London University College London United Kingdom	196.6	64.1	71.9	80.0	44.5
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	196.4	60.7	69.8	71.2	51.7
25	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	196.3	55.7	76.3	71.6	50.0
25	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	196.3	52.5	90.0	72.1	39.4
27	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	195.3	54.6	80.5	83.9	43.5
28	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	194.6	51.3	73.5	58.8	58.0
29	University of Science and Technology of China China	193.4	35.0	84.3	65.7	60.9
30	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	192.7	34.2	100.0	60.6	46.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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