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
1	Southeast University Southeast University China	293.1	97.9	81.4	79.5
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	291.6	95.9	84.8	74.7
3	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	290.0	100.0	75.0	75.1
4	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	254.8	79.2	81.0	77.4
5	Xidian University Xidian University China	251.6	74.7	86.3	79.4
6	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	251.4	82.6	71.0	75.5
7	Tongji University Tongji University China	249.2	81.6	70.5	77.3
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	243.8	72.7	80.6	88.7
9	Beihang University Beihang University China	238.0	68.8	86.2	71.1
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	237.5	74.9	73.5	70.9
11	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	235.4	67.8	82.3	86.8
12	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China	234.3	64.4	88.5	84.7
13	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	233.5	67.3	81.8	86.2
14	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	232.9	72.6	72.7	75.2
15	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	228.8	64.7	82.2	86.2
16	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	226.8	61.9	86.4	82.7
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	226.4	66.9	77.0	78.0
18	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	223.3	65.5	76.8	78.2
19	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	218.6	66.3	71.1	74.9
20	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University China	218.4	65.5	72.8	73.4
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	216.0	60.2	79.5	80.4
22	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	213.2	60.2	76.9	79.7
23	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	213.1	60.2	77.8	74.6
24	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	212.9	63.2	70.3	80.5
25	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	212.8	57.3	83.2	75.3
26	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	210.7	56.3	81.2	84.0
27	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	210.5	55.6	84.8	72.2
28	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	209.4	58.4	80.0	62.6
29	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	209.1	61.1	73.3	68.1
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	208.9	55.4	82.2	79.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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