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)

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Beihang University Beihang University China	280.3	100.0	77.4	49.6	93.0
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	236.9	76.8	78.7	47.6	71.8
3	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	229.3	69.0	67.1	43.4	84.5
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	224.4	71.6	81.7	46.5	61.7
5	National University of Defense Technology China	223.0	70.7	81.0	41.6	63.0
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	212.7	34.6	79.2	62.5	86.4
7	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	204.2	61.7	74.0	50.4	58.4
8	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	203.7	44.0	67.9	78.4	76.1
9	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	202.3	49.8	75.7	42.1	68.4
10	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	201.7	32.3	60.3	46.0	100.0
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	201.3	38.7	75.3	63.7	74.5
12	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	199.7	32.5	70.3	54.6	85.9
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	193.1	31.8	81.4	60.8	67.8
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	191.6	33.0	88.3	63.1	57.7
15	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	190.9	23.2	79.2	54.4	77.7
16	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel	181.0	37.9	63.3	71.9	65.5
17	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	178.6	31.0	71.1	86.8	59.1
18	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	176.4	24.8	71.8	50.8	69.6
19	Princeton University Princeton University United States	175.9	16.4	100.0	79.6	43.6
20	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	174.2	26.6	76.0	94.3	52.7
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	173.9	28.9	79.8	89.9	47.1
22	Stanford University Stanford University United States	172.9	25.1	82.6	74.1	50.4
23	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	171.6	25.7	61.5	59.6	72.4
24	University of Florida University of Florida United States	171.1	20.3	91.6	48.6	49.6
25	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	170.4	20.3	68.4	81.4	65.5
26	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	165.1	27.2	85.4	58.4	40.8
27	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	164.3	38.7	73.5	66.2	38.8
28	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	163.8	26.3	70.6	63.7	54.2
29	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	163.7	16.8	69.8	76.6	61.7
30	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	162.9	36.4	59.0	63.0	54.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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