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	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	297.7	100.0	82.7	63.8	100.0
2	University College London University College London United Kingdom	236.6	76.1	79.1	82.1	74.7
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	234.9	64.7	87.7	62.2	87.8
4	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	231.7	69.1	80.7	56.6	82.0
5	Yale University Yale University United States	227.3	69.2	78.7	62.7	77.9
6	Columbia University Columbia University United States	223.5	69.1	78.3	60.6	74.7
7	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	221.9	63.3	81.5	52.9	81.0
8	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	220.1	70.0	76.8	54.2	71.3
9	New York University New York University United States	216.2	62.0	80.5	60.4	76.8
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	213.9	59.8	86.5	85.2	72.4
11	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	209.1	50.3	83.9	58.0	85.9
12	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	207.0	75.3	73.6	77.1	49.6
13	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	206.8	71.2	83.8	53.0	52.8
14	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	198.1	65.2	89.0	78.7	47.9
15	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	195.4	69.3	81.8	81.9	42.5
15	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	195.4	57.0	85.7	56.4	61.4
17	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	194.2	64.9	80.5	53.6	51.2
18	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	193.0	57.2	77.5	56.8	62.7
19	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	192.5	63.9	76.6	56.6	52.8
20	Duke University Duke University United States	192.4	59.0	83.4	63.1	55.8
21	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	190.5	52.2	81.3	62.9	65.3
22	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	189.6	61.1	77.7	79.5	51.2
23	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	188.1	55.6	79.7	48.3	60.1
24	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	186.9	56.8	88.6	62.1	51.2
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	182.8	51.6	77.2	53.1	61.4
26	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	181.9	57.4	74.0	60.0	52.8
27	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	181.7	52.8	75.3	75.8	57.3
28	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	180.5	56.6	84.1	91.3	44.4
29	University of Washington University of Washington United States	178.2	61.8	79.8	51.4	40.5
30	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	177.9	52.0	80.2	85.9	51.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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