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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	278.9	100.0	73.6	56.2	94.1
2	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	264.9	57.6	93.6	89.3	95.8
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	255.6	53.5	86.1	80.1	100.0
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	254.7	48.0	94.8	76.1	96.7
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	247.7	47.4	96.4	87.2	86.5
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	244.1	77.3	77.8	51.9	78.6
7	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	242.7	69.8	81.7	50.1	81.2
8	University of Science and Technology of China China	241.5	81.3	74.3	49.8	76.0
9	Peking University Peking University China	240.1	53.5	80.5	57.5	94.6
10	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	237.1	93.5	71.9	49.3	61.8
11	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	235.0	49.1	76.5	74.3	94.6
12	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	234.6	50.0	80.2	71.0	90.2
13	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	232.0	47.8	85.4	90.7	80.6
14	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	229.9	77.7	71.6	51.1	70.4
15	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	227.3	42.7	85.0	54.0	88.8
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	225.2	56.5	84.3	81.6	68.1
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	224.6	53.2	78.4	69.7	79.1
18	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	224.3	28.5	100.0	86.0	78.6
19	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	223.0	81.4	72.2	54.5	58.4
20	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong Australia	222.3	37.5	100.0	92.9	66.3
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	221.6	71.1	71.1	56.2	68.1
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	219.9	49.8	76.6	79.9	77.6
23	Soochow University Soochow University China	218.8	42.4	89.9	57.6	74.9
24	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	217.2	36.9	100.0	57.8	68.7
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	215.9	55.2	75.3	81.0	69.3
26	Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan University of Technology China	214.2	43.5	83.9	70.2	72.7
27	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	210.9	75.6	69.7	54.0	54.8
28	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	210.1	61.9	71.6	77.6	61.2
29	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	210.0	46.2	88.1	63.3	63.1
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	208.6	40.0	87.5	86.7	63.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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