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
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	316.6	100.0	100.0	83.2
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	268.5	76.1	100.0	81.8
3	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	253.2	73.5	88.6	88.6
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	253.1	68.9	100.0	76.3
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	246.6	65.4	98.0	89.0
6	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	243.6	63.8	100.0	80.1
7	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	240.7	63.6	95.8	88.4
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	239.0	71.6	84.2	58.2
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	239.0	62.8	98.3	76.0
10	Cornell University Cornell University United States	235.0	65.1	89.8	75.0
11	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	232.5	67.8	82.1	74.4
12	University of Washington University of Washington United States	229.5	59.5	96.0	72.8
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	228.7	58.9	93.0	89.3
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	227.6	75.0	66.8	53.9
15	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	227.4	56.3	100.0	73.8
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	226.4	69.8	74.1	63.1
16	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	226.4	65.9	76.5	90.5
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	224.2	60.1	90.1	69.1
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	223.7	64.9	77.9	79.5
20	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	222.7	58.1	88.9	87.4
21	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	222.6	58.9	86.8	89.8
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	222.4	59.1	87.5	82.9
23	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	220.2	59.6	83.0	90.0
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	218.3	70.1	67.1	54.7
24	University College London University College London United Kingdom	218.3	61.2	78.2	88.5
26	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	217.5	65.7	73.6	62.6
27	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	217.3	56.6	86.2	90.0
28	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	213.5	56.4	87.5	65.6
29	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	213.4	54.6	88.3	79.6
30	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University France	213.3	56.9	83.0	82.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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