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
1	University of Science and Technology Beijing China	268.9	96.0	63.2	48.6	100.0
2	Central South University Central South University China	239.8	100.0	67.4	40.2	64.3
3	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang) China	235.6	84.2	63.9	50.7	77.4
4	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	231.7	87.6	72.1	43.8	63.2
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	230.8	74.7	71.1	58.6	73.2
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville United States	222.1	46.3	100.0	81.5	59.5
7	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	211.9	44.5	89.1	80.8	62.1
8	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	211.8	83.5	69.9	42.4	49.9
9	Tohoku University Tohoku University Japan	207.4	59.1	64.3	66.6	70.7
10	Monash University Monash University Australia	204.3	39.5	94.0	90.1	52.8
11	Chongqing University Chongqing University China	203.1	66.0	73.7	44.8	54.4
12	Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea	198.7	50.5	75.2	61.3	60.8
13	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	197.5	42.5	79.2	74.6	61.0
14	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	195.1	62.8	66.9	51.7	55.2
14	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	195.1	60.2	71.0	51.9	53.5
16	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	192.2	35.5	87.1	81.3	53.3
17	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	190.5	37.9	81.4	79.0	55.3
18	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	190.1	29.8	95.4	83.1	48.3
19	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	189.8	38.2	81.5	83.7	53.3
20	University of Leoben University of Leoben Austria	189.0	45.5	73.9	81.0	53.3
21	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	188.3	54.6	78.4	46.4	46.0
22	Shanghai University Shanghai University China	188.2	56.3	64.3	58.2	55.9
23	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	186.6	41.5	78.4	85.8	49.5
24	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	185.5	35.1	81.9	89.2	50.7
25	University of Science and Technology of China China	184.4	57.2	73.2	35.9	46.8
26	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	183.4	40.1	91.8	67.6	38.0
27	Nanjing University of Science and Technology China	181.4	42.7	84.8	68.3	40.3
27	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	181.4	36.9	77.5	79.7	51.1
29	Beihang University Beihang University China	181.1	58.5	67.9	46.1	45.6
30	Université Grenoble Alpes Université Grenoble Alpes France	180.2	44.0	67.9	87.0	50.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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