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	366.4	75.2	96.3	79.1	88.3	90.8
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	356.2	70.1	95.5	78.7	80.0	94.9
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	346.2	72.9	95.4	79.5	82.2	79.8
4	Harvard University Harvard University United States	342.5	58.4	98.6	82.6	84.5	84.4
5	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	336.9	64.9	91.4	73.8	65.8	100.0
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	329.4	66.5	87.6	88.1	73.3	84.4
7	Stanford University Stanford University United States	325.6	65.4	100.0	77.4	83.5	61.2
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	300.0	84.3	98.6	85.4	100.0	0.0
9	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	293.3	100.0	86.0	55.3	96.3	0.0
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	292.4	50.5	96.8	78.2	57.0	72.5
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	286.0	57.2	79.0	68.7	53.9	82.2
12	Peking University Peking University China	279.9	81.1	91.0	56.5	96.5	0.0
13	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	273.7	59.3	86.5	74.4	51.8	61.2
14	University of Science and Technology of China China	273.5	86.4	90.5	54.3	85.8	0.0
15	Soochow University Soochow University China	258.5	77.9	92.8	58.1	76.2	0.0
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	258.2	75.1	88.8	82.1	77.8	0.0
17	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	257.1	62.1	83.2	83.7	56.2	38.7
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	248.5	81.7	84.4	59.7	70.6	0.0
19	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	248.1	57.8	83.7	70.1	47.9	44.7
20	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	247.6	56.3	96.3	85.8	50.5	27.4
21	Fudan University Fudan University China	241.6	70.5	92.8	57.3	66.8	0.0
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	241.2	83.1	80.7	58.1	65.8	0.0
23	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	235.5	51.0	100.0	87.1	67.1	0.0
24	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	235.2	47.1	83.5	71.5	47.0	43.3
25	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	234.2	72.6	75.7	55.8	74.7	0.0
26	Princeton University Princeton University United States	232.4	37.7	81.5	73.9	37.2	61.2
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	231.6	68.6	79.6	54.9	72.4	0.0
27	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	231.6	52.7	91.1	69.6	46.5	27.4
29	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	231.1	71.7	83.0	72.1	62.1	0.0
30	Cornell University Cornell University United States	230.8	43.9	86.8	67.9	43.1	43.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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