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 Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	290.4	44.5	71.5	71.9	98.8	61.2
2	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	280.2	100.0	75.7	45.3	95.5	0.0
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	269.8	88.1	71.3	51.9	100.0	0.0
4	Stanford University Stanford University United States	268.9	33.2	82.1	61.9	70.6	70.7
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	259.6	93.9	69.4	49.2	86.5	0.0
6	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	258.7	28.0	77.6	85.8	35.9	100.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	256.8	23.6	72.4	66.3	54.0	93.5
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	256.6	40.6	77.5	69.8	74.6	50.0
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	251.7	25.1	68.1	75.6	49.9	93.5
10	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	249.7	40.0	70.3	64.2	60.4	66.1
11	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	233.9	81.9	70.5	47.9	71.9	0.0
12	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	233.5	52.6	78.4	73.1	87.9	0.0
13	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	228.2	73.7	75.3	47.0	69.8	0.0
14	Harvard University Harvard University United States	228.0	19.0	75.7	69.2	32.8	86.6
15	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	226.8	31.4	70.3	65.5	50.7	61.2
16	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	225.7	26.1	71.1	53.7	42.7	75.0
16	University of Science and Technology of China China	225.7	59.4	84.6	53.0	71.2	0.0
18	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	225.4	49.7	66.6	68.4	45.4	50.0
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	224.7	48.4	72.6	68.5	65.0	25.0
20	Beihang University Beihang University China	219.2	71.5	69.8	45.7	68.7	0.0
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	214.8	45.4	70.5	65.8	60.8	25.0
22	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	211.8	31.6	72.9	76.0	48.8	43.3
23	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	209.5	42.1	62.9	47.1	51.8	43.3
24	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	205.5	54.3	70.3	61.2	68.7	0.0
25	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	204.5	38.7	83.6	91.3	64.0	0.0
26	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	203.8	61.8	66.0	52.0	65.7	0.0
27	Princeton University Princeton University United States	203.6	34.3	82.8	85.6	69.3	0.0
28	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	202.6	55.7	83.5	55.2	52.4	0.0
29	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	201.3	66.8	70.4	53.7	53.4	0.0
30	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	201.1	63.2	67.5	50.9	60.2	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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