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	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	380.6	80.5	99.8	70.7	100.0	86.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	357.7	69.9	100.0	73.2	83.0	90.1
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	355.9	78.6	98.0	72.4	88.4	76.4
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	336.9	70.5	98.4	68.9	91.9	62.4
5	Harvard University Harvard University United States	329.3	64.5	95.2	77.3	79.2	75.0
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	327.8	49.1	97.3	63.9	68.6	100.0
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	293.3	75.8	89.0	67.3	83.9	31.2
8	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	293.0	72.8	82.4	79.1	77.4	44.5
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	292.0	71.6	88.6	85.1	79.4	35.4
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	284.3	90.8	100.0	82.8	76.9	0.0
11	University of Science and Technology of China China	281.1	97.8	94.5	49.2	79.0	0.0
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	278.9	70.6	98.4	78.7	53.3	40.8
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	277.6	61.1	92.0	63.7	68.5	43.3
14	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	276.2	75.1	72.7	53.2	88.9	28.9
15	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	274.3	100.0	92.9	49.9	71.4	0.0
16	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	267.9	80.7	70.3	50.9	92.3	14.4
17	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	267.2	70.1	88.6	78.8	78.3	14.4
18	Peking University Peking University China	266.7	90.8	88.8	50.3	77.1	0.0
19	Columbia University Columbia University United States	260.0	45.7	93.3	72.6	55.2	51.4
20	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	255.6	52.9	79.5	69.0	59.3	50.0
21	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	254.2	79.6	93.4	79.2	65.4	0.0
22	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	253.5	55.8	98.3	74.3	65.9	18.6
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	248.1	64.3	100.0	83.6	67.1	0.0
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	246.6	53.5	88.2	65.3	63.0	28.9
25	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	245.2	87.9	87.6	48.9	60.0	0.0
26	Nankai University Nankai University China	244.1	81.5	90.8	41.6	63.5	0.0
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	244.1	45.5	94.0	63.9	54.6	37.3
28	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	244.0	94.6	83.3	49.3	56.2	0.0
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	240.9	61.3	83.0	63.8	72.1	11.8
30	Fudan University Fudan University China	239.6	79.5	86.4	50.0	63.6	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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