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.

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC
1	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University China	289.8	100.0	78.5	56.7
2	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	277.3	92.6	77.7	71.8
3	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	271.4	91.0	79.1	51.5
4	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology China	264.9	80.6	92.5	56.8
5	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	245.1	76.4	82.2	50.8
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	244.6	75.7	82.3	54.5
7	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst United States	241.5	62.0	100.0	87.0
8	University of Campinas University of Campinas Brazil	237.5	74.3	78.8	50.6
9	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	236.1	70.8	79.5	75.1
10	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	232.2	73.6	73.1	59.5
11	Nanchang University Nanchang University China	225.4	62.1	89.0	60.9
12	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	225.0	67.3	79.1	56.6
13	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	222.4	63.3	81.5	71.5
14	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	221.9	66.4	75.2	69.2
15	University of Porto University of Porto Portugal	220.8	67.9	71.5	67.3
16	Cornell University Cornell University United States	216.2	61.9	77.8	73.3
17	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	215.6	64.0	71.2	81.8
18	University College Dublin University College Dublin Ireland	214.6	55.0	88.9	78.0
19	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	211.4	62.4	71.0	78.4
20	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	210.4	55.2	83.8	80.6
21	King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia	208.9	46.7	95.5	100.0
22	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University China	207.2	59.3	79.1	47.4
23	University of Valencia University of Valencia Spain	206.5	55.4	81.7	69.7
24	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	203.9	54.9	78.9	75.9
25	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick United States	202.7	54.7	76.7	83.5
26	University of Bologna University of Bologna Italy	201.7	57.0	73.4	71.0
27	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	197.7	53.4	78.1	64.3
28	Polytechnic University of Valencia Polytechnic University of Valencia Spain	195.5	54.1	75.8	57.7
29	University of Milan University of Milan Italy	195.3	56.4	70.0	61.9
30	Instituto Politecnico de Braganca Instituto Politecnico de Braganca Portugal	195.0	49.9	78.2	84.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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