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	320.3	48.5	91.5	73.4	65.7	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	269.6	100.0	80.5	55.7	77.9	0.0
3	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	265.3	91.3	73.9	45.3	91.0	0.0
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	258.2	41.7	94.1	70.0	44.1	64.2
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	251.8	48.2	82.2	73.1	58.3	48.5
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	251.0	80.2	74.2	51.5	86.3	0.0
7	Beijing University of Chemical Technology China	241.8	64.1	69.4	41.3	100.0	0.0
8	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	241.0	73.6	85.0	50.1	72.3	0.0
9	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	240.6	39.6	81.8	64.7	52.1	54.2
10	East China University of Science and Technology China	239.2	74.1	67.7	43.1	88.9	0.0
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	234.3	24.4	95.4	74.2	35.5	64.2
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	229.8	39.6	85.6	75.5	41.0	48.5
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	225.3	26.7	73.7	63.0	28.3	84.0
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	224.5	60.8	91.3	75.8	57.3	0.0
15	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	221.4	58.5	76.2	41.6	78.4	0.0
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	220.3	61.6	97.2	84.3	44.6	0.0
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	220.1	45.8	73.8	76.4	50.9	34.3
18	University of Science and Technology of China China	218.6	68.4	85.5	50.5	54.6	0.0
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	216.5	70.6	74.3	47.3	62.1	0.0
20	Princeton University Princeton University United States	214.2	36.7	79.9	78.5	27.6	54.2
21	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing China	205.1	63.2	64.9	50.8	66.8	0.0
22	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	205.0	53.5	78.1	76.1	58.3	0.0
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	204.7	68.3	82.8	47.4	44.1	0.0
24	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	204.2	64.3	77.2	49.4	52.8	0.0
25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	203.4	65.3	77.0	50.5	50.9	0.0
26	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	201.8	45.0	75.1	75.9	42.4	24.3
27	Nanjing Tech University Nanjing Tech University China	199.8	57.7	72.1	50.7	59.9	0.0
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	199.3	33.2	100.0	77.8	50.6	0.0
29	University of Delaware University of Delaware United States	197.0	26.0	71.6	71.2	30.9	54.2
30	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	196.7	56.7	86.0	87.3	36.5	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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