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	355.3	61.1	83.1	73.8	96.3	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	315.6	55.6	93.0	68.9	82.6	70.7
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	284.4	46.9	79.0	72.2	78.5	65.5
4	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University United States	279.9	55.7	71.6	74.0	100.0	37.8
5	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	264.0	52.9	100.0	84.1	67.6	26.7
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	263.9	100.0	73.2	65.9	77.6	0.0
7	Harvard University Harvard University United States	252.4	57.4	81.8	71.8	52.5	46.3
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	243.1	86.8	84.2	88.2	54.5	0.0
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	234.2	47.3	72.7	80.9	60.2	37.8
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	226.2	41.7	65.2	67.8	52.3	53.5
11	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney Australia	224.6	67.5	91.8	90.6	47.2	0.0
12	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	223.8	90.8	86.7	64.5	33.4	0.0
13	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	223.1	46.5	66.4	76.7	54.0	40.8
14	Princeton University Princeton University United States	222.5	36.2	74.5	72.3	55.1	42.3
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	219.8	68.6	81.2	88.1	52.3	0.0
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	218.9	86.7	71.6	64.3	47.7	0.0
17	University of Southern California University of Southern California United States	217.1	45.8	77.1	70.7	53.3	26.7
18	Cornell University Cornell University United States	216.4	38.2	74.5	66.3	57.8	32.7
19	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	216.2	86.0	70.1	63.6	47.4	0.0
20	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	214.7	40.5	94.5	71.4	27.7	37.8
21	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	214.1	88.9	83.8	58.6	29.7	0.0
22	Peking University Peking University China	213.3	64.6	77.5	66.6	57.9	0.0
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	210.4	89.8	83.5	65.0	24.1	0.0
24	Beihang University Beihang University China	210.2	85.8	72.2	60.9	40.0	0.0
24	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	210.2	58.6	84.9	68.2	53.0	0.0
24	University of Science and Technology of China China	210.2	67.1	84.4	62.5	46.2	0.0
27	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	209.1	39.9	75.0	82.9	39.9	37.8
28	Xidian University Xidian University China	208.4	93.0	73.8	57.6	30.2	0.0
29	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	206.5	40.9	69.5	65.9	56.2	26.7
30	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	204.1	54.3	73.0	71.5	62.5	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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