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
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	316.1	100.0	100.0	80.5
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	270.3	77.2	100.0	79.8
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	253.3	70.8	97.1	73.7
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	252.3	68.7	100.0	74.7
5	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark Denmark	250.3	73.7	85.7	85.3
6	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	247.5	65.8	98.7	86.2
7	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	241.9	65.6	94.0	83.7
8	Cornell University Cornell University United States	240.1	68.2	89.3	71.9
9	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	236.6	62.3	96.3	78.2
10	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	235.8	69.8	84.2	59.7
11	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	233.1	64.7	86.2	87.6
12	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	228.4	66.4	80.5	75.5
13	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	228.3	66.9	77.3	86.7
14	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	227.4	56.4	99.8	74.0
15	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	226.6	59.4	90.5	85.8
16	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	225.8	75.0	65.1	53.0
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	225.5	65.4	80.4	71.4
17	University of Washington University of Washington United States	225.5	59.8	91.9	70.5
19	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	225.4	61.4	86.2	82.0
20	University College London University College London United Kingdom	221.4	61.3	81.5	86.9
21	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	220.5	60.1	87.3	65.2
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	219.9	66.8	73.9	62.4
23	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	219.2	64.8	72.7	84.6
24	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	217.9	57.1	86.3	87.5
25	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	217.6	50.8	100.0	80.0
26	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	217.4	56.4	87.3	86.7
27	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	215.9	59.0	85.3	63.2
28	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	215.5	57.4	85.6	75.0
29	Seoul National University Seoul National University South Korea	215.2	65.4	73.7	53.3
30	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	213.5	57.5	80.8	87.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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