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
1	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	311.0	99.0	94.8	86.6	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	295.4	100.0	88.9	59.8	94.5
3	Peking University Peking University China	287.0	95.8	86.6	58.1	93.0
4	University of Science and Technology of China China	280.6	93.0	90.9	58.6	85.1
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	278.6	84.3	90.3	83.6	87.4
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	277.3	85.0	83.8	80.2	92.4
7	Stanford University Stanford University United States	276.6	78.6	95.6	76.8	87.0
8	Soochow University Soochow University China	274.1	87.1	93.0	61.5	81.8
9	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	270.0	85.5	82.7	82.5	85.3
10	Harvard University Harvard University United States	266.2	76.3	87.7	84.0	85.4
11	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	265.9	77.2	85.8	78.2	87.3
12	Fudan University Fudan University China	250.3	78.8	87.4	57.7	72.5
13	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	249.8	79.9	83.0	67.0	73.5
14	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	245.5	71.0	79.5	72.3	80.5
15	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	244.5	80.5	73.3	53.9	79.9
16	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	241.5	68.9	81.6	91.7	72.6
17	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	239.5	61.7	90.8	79.6	71.0
18	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	238.1	74.3	87.7	59.0	64.3
19	Nanjing University Nanjing University China	237.5	79.2	81.3	58.3	65.3
20	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	237.3	78.7	71.4	54.3	76.4
21	Rice University Rice University United States	235.1	59.4	93.0	78.5	67.0
22	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	232.8	71.7	74.8	72.4	71.8
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	231.1	64.1	83.5	87.2	66.2
24	Jilin University Jilin University China	230.0	78.5	80.7	54.0	60.0
25	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	227.6	63.3	81.2	83.6	66.4
26	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	226.9	59.0	91.5	86.4	59.1
27	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	226.0	62.1	87.0	62.0	64.6
28	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	225.4	73.9	69.0	52.6	72.0
29	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	225.0	68.1	86.2	56.8	59.4
30	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	224.6	56.4	92.5	86.6	58.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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