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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	301.2	95.1	85.3	88.8	89.3	68.3
2	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	290.0	84.5	75.5	84.7	93.0	100.0
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	279.2	96.6	69.6	64.7	100.0	0.0
4	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	278.5	89.2	77.2	84.4	87.9	36.5
5	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	273.5	92.3	68.9	67.2	98.8	0.0
6	Hohai University Hohai University China	271.5	99.5	62.4	68.5	95.9	0.0
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	268.0	93.1	74.5	69.4	86.5	0.0
8	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	262.7	88.6	76.7	85.5	80.3	0.0
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	254.3	100.0	75.4	88.5	61.2	0.0
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	248.9	73.4	76.0	70.8	75.1	51.6
11	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	248.6	91.5	79.1	62.3	65.5	0.0
12	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	246.5	76.5	71.1	80.2	73.9	44.7
13	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	245.9	67.3	93.7	90.3	66.9	0.0
13	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	245.9	54.3	99.8	81.8	61.7	68.3
15	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan Canada	243.9	74.5	82.4	80.4	70.9	0.0
16	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	241.8	66.0	81.1	64.1	66.5	77.5
17	Flinders University Flinders University Australia	240.8	66.5	72.0	87.4	84.7	0.0
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	240.4	66.4	72.4	82.5	69.6	77.5
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	238.8	69.7	81.7	63.5	74.7	0.0
20	Princeton University Princeton University United States	238.6	51.4	100.0	85.0	56.5	68.3
21	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	238.5	91.3	80.8	90.9	48.3	0.0
22	University of Padua University of Padua Italy	235.3	61.9	86.1	85.8	61.2	44.7
23	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	234.1	84.0	78.7	86.0	54.3	0.0
24	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	231.8	67.4	88.5	86.4	58.6	0.0
25	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	230.1	76.7	73.5	62.6	67.4	0.0
26	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	224.3	64.5	82.9	85.3	49.5	51.6
27	Stanford University Stanford University United States	222.6	65.8	76.9	74.1	65.1	0.0
28	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	221.0	78.7	75.1	67.5	53.7	0.0
29	Cornell University Cornell University United States	220.1	58.6	78.4	78.2	55.9	57.7
30	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	219.4	48.8	92.8	76.2	62.7	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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