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	355.4	71.5	95.1	80.1	82.0	90.8
2	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	342.1	70.4	97.1	80.3	78.7	79.8
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	340.9	63.9	92.3	80.2	73.7	94.9
4	Harvard University Harvard University United States	334.4	55.6	97.1	84.2	80.3	84.4
5	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	331.4	62.3	89.4	75.1	64.7	100.0
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	322.9	63.2	87.2	88.8	70.3	84.4
7	Stanford University Stanford University United States	316.1	63.2	100.0	78.1	76.0	61.2
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	296.4	100.0	86.2	56.0	99.1	0.0
9	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	296.2	81.1	97.7	86.9	100.0	0.0
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	293.7	49.9	95.8	80.0	59.6	72.5
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	281.5	53.1	77.2	70.0	46.4	90.8
12	Peking University Peking University China	278.7	81.3	90.7	57.0	95.4	0.0
13	University of Science and Technology of China China	277.5	88.4	89.2	53.3	89.2	0.0
14	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	268.4	56.0	85.9	74.4	50.3	61.2
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	264.5	73.4	90.6	84.5	83.6	0.0
16	Soochow University Soochow University China	260.6	78.4	92.9	58.3	77.7	0.0
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	255.6	60.2	82.9	84.1	57.0	38.7
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	249.3	80.5	84.6	60.0	72.2	0.0
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	243.9	54.6	85.0	72.2	45.1	44.7
20	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	242.1	83.4	80.8	58.6	66.2	0.0
21	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	238.6	78.2	88.0	53.6	61.7	0.0
22	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	238.1	76.9	81.2	51.2	69.8	0.0
23	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	234.9	69.8	85.7	55.9	68.1	0.0
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	234.7	45.2	84.7	71.0	47.2	43.3
25	Fudan University Fudan University China	233.7	68.9	90.6	57.5	62.6	0.0
26	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	232.7	50.6	100.0	88.2	64.4	0.0
27	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	231.7	53.1	89.1	85.0	45.1	27.4
28	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	230.1	81.6	84.6	49.6	53.9	0.0
29	Cornell University Cornell University United States	230.0	42.6	84.8	68.9	45.6	43.3
30	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	229.8	49.3	91.3	71.0	47.6	27.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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