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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	341.3	100.0	79.4	74.1	100.0	47.1
2	University of Washington University of Washington United States	335.1	74.7	79.5	66.2	67.6	100.0
3	Colorado State University Colorado State University United States	301.3	70.8	75.3	66.4	67.5	74.5
4	The University of Reading The University of Reading United Kingdom	291.6	74.8	80.9	79.5	64.7	55.3
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	290.4	79.3	80.8	79.4	81.1	33.3
6	Princeton University Princeton University United States	288.0	67.3	88.4	75.0	59.5	57.7
7	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	285.8	58.4	74.2	79.0	55.7	81.6
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	283.9	61.6	79.1	76.5	55.3	72.6
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	259.5	61.2	80.2	77.6	61.8	40.8
10	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	256.4	72.8	80.3	77.5	64.3	23.6
11	University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines France	256.3	80.3	83.8	93.3	73.6	0.0
12	Columbia University Columbia University United States	250.3	79.7	85.0	78.2	69.9	0.0
13	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology China	247.7	90.3	62.1	70.8	81.1	0.0
14	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	247.6	57.7	84.4	84.9	47.7	40.8
15	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 France	246.4	78.4	75.8	92.9	73.7	0.0
16	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	245.9	53.4	74.0	90.1	53.4	47.1
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	242.9	71.8	89.5	90.4	63.6	0.0
18	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	239.8	50.2	83.7	78.8	49.3	40.8
19	Yale University Yale University United States	228.7	39.7	82.7	77.8	33.0	57.7
20	Harvard University Harvard University United States	226.9	66.2	84.5	82.0	59.7	0.0
21	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	226.3	49.4	75.5	76.5	45.3	40.8
22	Stockholm University Stockholm University Sweden	224.4	55.3	77.2	95.3	49.2	23.6
23	Peking University Peking University China	223.1	69.9	79.1	79.2	58.3	0.0
24	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	222.1	62.5	83.8	87.9	58.2	0.0
25	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	219.8	51.0	66.8	65.4	41.8	47.1
26	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	214.1	59.3	87.2	79.7	51.6	0.0
27	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	212.5	37.3	79.0	77.0	33.7	47.1
28	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany	212.2	61.9	72.9	88.5	59.6	0.0
29	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	210.1	66.0	72.4	70.6	57.6	0.0
30	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	209.0	45.6	78.5	71.4	37.3	33.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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