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
1	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University China	291.9	100.0	76.8	75.4
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	290.1	94.2	86.6	75.9
3	Southeast University Southeast University China	278.6	92.4	78.0	78.9
4	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology Netherlands	259.2	86.3	71.9	73.9
5	Tongji University Tongji University China	245.9	79.7	70.9	78.4
6	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University China	242.7	76.7	74.8	72.6
7	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China	239.9	75.6	73.1	78.5
8	Beihang University Beihang University China	239.1	67.2	90.7	69.7
9	Xidian University Xidian University China	238.2	68.4	86.1	76.1
10	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University Singapore	236.9	69.6	80.2	86.6
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	233.6	69.9	78.4	77.1
12	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	232.5	68.7	78.6	83.1
13	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo Canada	232.4	66.7	82.2	83.6
14	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	231.6	67.2	80.2	85.1
15	University of Leeds University of Leeds United Kingdom	230.4	69.2	77.0	75.1
16	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	229.8	72.5	70.0	74.5
17	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China	227.6	65.7	80.7	77.2
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	227.2	69.9	73.0	72.1
19	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China	226.1	59.1	91.1	84.1
20	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China	220.9	59.3	85.9	81.6
21	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	214.4	63.1	72.2	79.9
22	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology China	213.2	56.2	86.4	72.3
23	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	213.0	60.5	80.1	60.3
24	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden	212.9	63.7	70.2	77.0
25	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	212.6	58.5	79.2	82.0
26	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University China	210.6	61.0	74.0	72.8
27	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	210.5	57.9	81.1	67.4
28	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	208.7	59.1	77.5	65.0
29	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida United States	207.6	51.6	91.1	67.2
30	University of Montreal University of Montreal Canada	207.5	58.8	74.6	76.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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