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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	325.6	50.9	92.1	78.3	66.9	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	278.0	42.4	100.0	72.6	47.7	73.4
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	272.7	100.0	81.7	58.2	79.3	0.0
4	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	266.7	91.9	74.4	46.1	91.1	0.0
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	256.4	48.1	83.2	75.5	54.5	55.5
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	256.3	84.1	73.2	51.2	88.7	0.0
7	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	253.6	42.5	82.0	66.3	53.8	62.0
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	253.1	25.6	100.0	74.4	39.3	73.4
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	245.2	42.8	85.9	76.8	45.7	55.5
10	Beijing University of Chemical Technology China	244.8	66.2	69.8	43.9	100.0	0.0
11	East China University of Science and Technology China	240.5	77.1	66.5	44.8	87.9	0.0
12	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	239.2	73.6	84.7	53.1	70.3	0.0
13	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	236.5	26.4	74.7	69.0	25.6	96.1
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	234.3	63.9	93.5	78.5	61.2	0.0
15	Princeton University Princeton University United States	233.7	37.5	86.9	81.2	31.1	62.0
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	229.9	61.3	100.0	88.3	50.9	0.0
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	224.8	45.9	73.3	79.4	50.5	39.2
18	University of Science and Technology of China China	223.2	67.8	87.7	51.9	57.3	0.0
19	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	213.5	70.1	73.9	51.2	59.3	0.0
20	University of Delaware University of Delaware United States	211.4	29.0	73.9	71.3	32.3	62.0
21	Sichuan University Sichuan University China	210.3	56.1	75.7	45.4	69.5	0.0
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	208.1	47.4	77.2	77.1	40.3	27.7
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	208.1	62.6	77.7	52.3	57.3	0.0
24	North Carolina State University - Raleigh United States	207.3	35.1	72.2	76.9	29.1	55.5
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	205.9	54.0	80.3	80.1	55.6	0.0
26	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	203.8	35.4	100.0	82.4	52.0	0.0
27	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	199.6	35.7	71.5	72.3	38.8	39.2
28	China University of Petroleum, Beijing China University of Petroleum, Beijing China	199.4	63.6	64.5	52.0	60.9	0.0
29	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	199.0	62.3	76.5	50.7	50.1	0.0
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	198.5	65.7	83.1	51.9	39.3	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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