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	Harvard University Harvard University United States	300.2	100.0	84.4	79.3	100.0
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	267.4	75.8	79.3	61.2	100.0
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	249.0	65.4	96.4	79.4	71.3
4	Fudan University Fudan University China	245.1	54.5	82.2	52.5	97.9
5	Soochow University Soochow University China	230.5	48.4	93.2	59.9	76.9
6	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	230.1	61.8	74.9	82.9	76.9
7	Stanford University Stanford University United States	227.9	68.2	85.7	70.7	59.9
8	Peking University Peking University China	223.0	56.7	78.4	60.7	75.8
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	222.0	57.7	76.8	63.5	74.7
10	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	221.2	58.4	67.9	54.1	84.2
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	221.1	63.6	79.5	60.7	65.8
12	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	218.7	62.5	76.7	71.5	65.2
13	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	215.6	52.2	78.0	55.7	74.2
14	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	215.4	57.5	75.9	61.9	69.5
15	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	205.2	49.6	85.6	68.7	56.3
16	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	204.6	57.7	78.2	58.4	57.0
16	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	204.6	57.4	80.4	60.2	54.8
18	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	204.0	59.3	84.7	76.6	44.7
19	Korea University Korea University South Korea	203.6	48.7	78.8	67.6	62.6
20	Columbia University Columbia University United States	200.4	50.2	83.6	70.4	52.4
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	199.4	52.6	89.9	70.2	42.8
22	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	198.3	49.0	92.9	77.9	40.8
23	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	197.8	31.7	100.0	56.8	54.8
24	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University China	197.5	49.1	75.0	57.3	61.9
25	University College London University College London United Kingdom	197.1	64.1	71.7	78.4	45.6
26	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	196.5	54.0	80.9	84.6	44.7
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	195.1	59.3	67.9	69.5	54.0
28	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	194.5	51.3	78.6	65.2	51.6
29	University of Science and Technology of China China	192.4	33.7	84.7	67.3	60.6
30	Emory University Emory University United States	191.2	46.5	84.4	64.4	47.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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