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	Harvard University Harvard University United States	344.5	71.1	86.9	83.5	69.8	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	332.1	58.2	89.9	77.4	81.9	86.6
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	327.0	74.7	84.4	88.9	100.0	50.0
4	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	300.6	54.4	76.7	71.7	55.1	100.0
5	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	294.5	53.4	76.4	76.7	49.4	100.0
6	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	293.8	59.7	71.5	73.4	61.3	86.6
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	288.5	100.0	83.0	66.6	92.2	0.0
8	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	281.8	61.7	75.1	85.1	57.4	70.7
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	276.3	51.8	83.0	81.9	54.3	70.7
10	University of Alberta University of Alberta Canada	274.3	52.7	71.5	78.6	63.7	70.7
11	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	270.9	53.2	78.1	72.7	54.3	70.7
12	Princeton University Princeton University United States	269.5	41.0	90.4	81.3	35.2	86.6
13	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	268.9	84.1	77.7	68.6	93.4	0.0
14	Peking University Peking University China	267.8	84.2	82.5	69.7	87.2	0.0
15	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	263.0	43.7	76.0	82.2	40.3	86.6
16	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	258.7	57.0	80.2	89.7	42.4	61.2
17	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	255.3	70.1	79.8	75.2	90.3	0.0
17	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	255.3	57.9	84.2	75.2	37.0	61.2
19	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	245.6	50.3	87.7	81.4	41.3	50.0
20	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	242.1	53.2	73.9	86.8	27.0	70.7
21	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	239.4	44.9	76.3	83.8	30.7	70.7
22	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	236.0	77.7	86.1	89.6	54.3	0.0
23	University of Cape Town University of Cape Town South Africa	235.1	34.8	74.2	83.8	9.2	100.0
24	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	233.9	42.7	74.0	70.3	41.9	61.2
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	233.1	76.1	75.1	67.7	68.3	0.0
26	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	232.8	76.2	78.6	85.3	61.0	0.0
27	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	229.6	64.5	80.1	74.3	70.1	0.0
28	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	228.7	52.7	83.2	84.1	76.0	0.0
29	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	223.4	56.9	86.4	90.9	62.0	0.0
30	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	223.0	58.9	72.1	78.8	76.2	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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