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.

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	308.0	93.6	85.9	88.7	97.1	68.3
2	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	294.9	85.8	74.8	84.1	97.4	100.0
3	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University China	275.6	95.2	67.3	65.4	100.0	0.0
3	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University United States	275.6	86.7	76.2	82.5	88.9	36.5
5	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	269.9	86.2	76.5	85.6	90.1	0.0
6	Hohai University Hohai University China	268.0	94.8	64.4	69.8	94.8	0.0
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	263.7	89.9	75.9	68.4	84.3	0.0
8	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	260.3	82.5	71.1	67.4	93.3	0.0
9	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	258.0	74.1	75.5	73.3	83.4	51.6
10	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	255.3	69.5	89.4	92.1	78.0	0.0
11	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	255.2	100.0	76.2	88.4	61.4	0.0
12	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	254.8	66.8	85.6	61.3	74.7	77.5
13	Flinders University Flinders University Australia	251.5	70.2	70.0	86.3	94.0	0.0
14	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	246.7	74.6	70.7	81.4	76.1	44.7
14	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine United States	246.7	53.5	97.5	83.3	65.4	68.3
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	246.4	66.8	70.1	80.1	78.0	77.5
17	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	244.7	69.5	82.2	61.3	80.8	0.0
18	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	244.1	82.2	82.9	85.3	62.0	0.0
19	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	242.7	87.9	79.5	87.4	57.7	0.0
20	University of Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan Canada	241.3	70.9	80.1	80.6	74.2	0.0
21	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	241.0	84.4	82.0	63.4	62.0	0.0
22	Princeton University Princeton University United States	240.6	50.1	98.5	81.8	62.0	68.3
23	University of Padua University of Padua Italy	240.1	63.6	84.9	86.6	65.4	44.7
24	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	232.8	65.1	93.5	85.5	57.1	0.0
25	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Switzerland	232.6	64.5	85.0	88.7	56.5	44.7
26	Stanford University Stanford University United States	232.4	66.8	78.2	73.3	72.7	0.0
27	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	231.8	65.5	88.2	87.0	60.8	0.0
28	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	231.2	49.1	100.0	75.3	67.0	0.0
29	University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen United Kingdom	225.5	55.7	94.3	94.9	56.5	0.0
30	Duke University Duke University United States	220.4	55.9	74.0	76.8	64.8	51.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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