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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	297.6	100.0	83.5	70.8	100.0
2	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	289.2	75.9	98.9	87.1	97.0
3	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	275.6	90.2	94.9	88.9	72.8
4	University College London University College London United Kingdom	266.7	80.2	87.5	70.8	84.9
5	University of Exeter University of Exeter United Kingdom	260.0	72.5	86.3	77.3	85.7
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	257.3	83.3	79.0	72.8	80.4
7	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	256.7	69.9	93.1	89.7	75.7
8	Durham University Durham University United Kingdom	250.9	80.0	84.4	73.7	71.7
9	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	241.3	73.6	90.7	64.5	64.2
10	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	240.9	75.9	75.7	77.5	73.8
11	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	240.4	76.4	85.6	88.5	60.6
12	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	240.0	66.1	86.5	73.0	72.8
13	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	238.9	76.9	81.8	68.6	66.4
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	238.9	75.2	87.9	75.5	60.6
15	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	237.4	65.3	86.3	65.1	72.8
16	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	235.6	70.0	82.8	76.4	67.5
17	The University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield United Kingdom	235.3	68.3	84.6	68.7	68.6
18	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	230.4	67.3	73.6	68.7	75.7
19	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	228.8	78.1	84.7	94.9	47.0
20	University of Washington University of Washington United States	227.4	63.5	93.7	66.8	56.9
21	Newcastle University Newcastle University United Kingdom	227.2	59.3	81.2	64.7	73.8
22	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	226.5	63.0	82.7	88.8	63.0
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	225.2	67.7	80.7	68.9	63.0
24	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	223.9	64.9	87.0	69.2	58.2
25	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	223.1	53.7	89.6	72.4	65.3
26	Cardiff University Cardiff University United Kingdom	221.4	53.9	80.6	55.9	75.7
27	Stanford University Stanford University United States	218.5	50.3	98.0	79.6	54.2
28	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	218.3	64.9	92.3	86.9	43.7
29	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	217.8	63.2	82.2	71.0	58.2
30	Autonomous University of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain	217.1	58.0	76.0	78.4	67.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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