2020 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.

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	390.1	90.1	85.9	80.8	97.9	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	350.6	82.5	91.5	80.0	81.2	79.5
3	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	343.1	94.8	69.3	73.5	94.6	69.7
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	342.6	90.3	86.5	82.6	82.9	66.4
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	338.9	87.6	88.3	84.3	67.6	78.6
6	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	337.6	82.9	86.2	81.0	92.9	59.4
7	Harvard University Harvard University United States	336.6	96.5	85.3	84.8	74.8	63.0
8	Princeton University Princeton University United States	336.3	73.9	86.3	80.0	79.7	80.4
9	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University France	319.7	89.4	76.8	85.9	100.0	36.4
10	PSL University PSL University France	319.1	81.1	79.2	86.2	77.3	64.2
11	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	301.6	63.2	92.5	91.1	68.3	59.4
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	296.2	61.5	89.7	77.9	58.7	70.7
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	291.7	58.9	78.2	76.6	62.1	77.2
14	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 France	291.3	100.0	77.5	87.8	96.2	0.0
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	289.1	60.9	81.0	89.6	56.5	72.8
16	University of Washington University of Washington United States	285.2	57.0	94.9	80.3	54.2	63.0
17	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	272.1	92.1	84.6	87.1	77.9	0.0
18	Cornell University Cornell University United States	268.5	54.1	83.4	78.0	51.3	64.2
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	264.4	62.4	88.5	76.9	56.0	42.0
20	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	263.6	81.6	83.1	88.5	81.2	0.0
21	Columbia University Columbia University United States	259.9	59.2	96.1	83.2	53.7	34.3
22	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	259.6	73.5	84.9	79.5	85.3	0.0
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	259.6	71.2	80.2	78.8	62.7	29.7
24	University of Paris University of Paris France	255.7	77.8	88.0	90.1	71.8	0.0
25	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium	255.2	44.1	90.1	90.7	43.5	59.4
26	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	252.3	61.9	87.5	87.4	59.6	25.7
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	246.5	82.0	73.7	63.9	78.0	0.0
28	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	245.7	58.4	85.0	89.6	42.4	42.0
29	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	243.9	65.5	86.9	88.9	73.7	0.0
30	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	241.7	72.3	79.4	87.1	72.6	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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