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	273.5	59.6	97.0	88.6	99.2
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	271.4	100.0	75.6	58.2	84.2
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	258.9	48.9	94.1	79.4	100.0
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	254.5	53.2	86.4	83.3	98.3
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	254.4	47.4	100.0	90.4	89.0
6	Huazhong University of Science and Technology China	240.7	75.0	79.8	53.1	75.3
7	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	235.2	69.6	79.8	52.5	75.3
8	Peking University Peking University China	233.6	53.7	82.2	58.2	86.1
9	University of Science and Technology of China China	233.5	79.2	75.6	51.4	68.3
10	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	231.6	50.4	77.2	75.2	89.0
11	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University China	230.1	90.3	73.4	50.4	56.3
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	229.9	53.7	75.3	81.4	84.7
13	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	229.7	51.0	79.2	74.3	84.7
14	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	228.2	54.1	81.6	69.7	78.5
15	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	227.9	43.0	87.2	55.3	86.6
16	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia	223.7	45.7	87.2	94.1	71.9
17	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	221.7	28.6	100.0	89.1	75.3
18	Tianjin University Tianjin University China	221.5	77.6	73.6	52.1	59.9
19	Soochow University Soochow University China	220.8	42.2	91.1	58.5	75.8
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	219.9	55.1	76.8	83.4	71.3
21	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	218.2	71.0	72.3	55.0	63.9
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	216.3	58.6	84.4	81.2	57.0
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	216.3	79.6	73.1	55.8	52.4
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	215.0	39.6	93.5	89.8	63.9
25	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	213.6	36.0	100.0	58.9	65.8
26	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	211.4	50.6	70.8	62.8	77.5
27	University of Wollongong University of Wollongong Australia	209.4	37.9	95.6	94.4	57.0
28	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	207.5	42.7	79.0	84.3	68.9
29	Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan University of Technology China	206.9	42.8	85.5	73.2	63.9
30	Sungkyunkwan University Sungkyunkwan University South Korea	204.6	35.5	89.0	59.0	68.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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