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.

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP
1	Beihang University Beihang University China	279.2	100.0	79.3	47.9	90.4
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University China	221.9	68.7	78.0	45.5	66.2
3	National University of Defense Technology China	219.5	70.6	83.4	40.7	57.3
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology China	217.6	68.2	84.4	48.0	55.4
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	214.2	39.4	78.9	59.0	84.1
6	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China	211.3	61.0	68.3	40.3	74.0
7	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	208.4	41.0	77.5	55.3	78.8
8	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	206.0	36.0	61.5	43.0	100.0
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	203.1	46.1	70.3	78.7	71.0
10	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	196.3	34.7	72.4	52.0	78.8
11	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology China	195.6	57.4	77.8	49.8	50.5
12	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	191.1	48.6	74.0	40.5	60.4
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	189.0	35.2	75.4	58.3	66.7
14	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	188.6	27.2	75.8	53.4	75.0
15	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	185.0	34.7	81.5	57.4	57.3
16	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	177.2	31.0	76.4	85.7	52.7
16	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Israel	177.2	42.1	65.8	72.9	54.7
18	Stanford University Stanford University United States	176.8	26.2	84.0	73.5	52.0
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	175.5	28.5	74.6	48.2	62.8
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	171.6	18.7	80.4	75.6	57.3
20	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	171.6	28.2	73.6	85.9	52.7
22	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University United States	171.5	27.2	63.5	54.8	69.9
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	171.4	28.2	79.5	81.1	47.6
24	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome Italy	168.7	42.3	74.1	60.9	40.1
25	University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II Italy	167.7	28.8	88.2	57.5	39.2
26	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	165.3	40.8	62.4	61.5	49.8
27	University of Bristol University of Bristol United Kingdom	164.0	20.2	69.3	79.7	58.6
28	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea	162.0	36.5	57.9	45.5	58.6
29	Pennsylvania State University - University Park United States	161.0	26.8	62.0	46.7	62.8
30	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	160.8	26.5	68.4	59.5	54.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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