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	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research Netherlands	303.0	100.0	85.8	86.0
2	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University China	279.4	93.4	80.7	59.8
3	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University China	277.1	93.6	79.4	52.2
4	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University China	267.2	88.2	79.3	57.7
5	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	260.9	82.3	81.1	76.2
6	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University China	251.3	78.8	82.3	57.1
7	Cornell University Cornell University United States	246.0	74.0	83.1	74.6
8	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden	244.9	74.4	79.4	83.7
9	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University China	240.8	72.4	83.8	60.9
10	University of Florida University of Florida United States	238.5	76.0	72.5	70.1
11	Michigan State University Michigan State University United States	237.0	69.8	83.7	67.9
12	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University France	230.8	64.7	85.3	80.6
13	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	228.7	65.7	80.0	86.1
14	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	228.3	65.1	81.3	84.2
15	Aarhus University Aarhus University Denmark	227.6	65.7	79.3	84.6
16	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	226.6	66.2	80.3	69.3
17	The University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia Australia	224.7	63.1	81.6	84.5
18	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Canada	221.2	60.1	84.6	82.1
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	218.5	61.7	80.8	71.9
20	Iowa State University Iowa State University United States	217.5	62.7	78.6	67.2
21	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	216.7	61.4	77.9	79.8
22	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	214.6	58.8	83.9	65.9
23	University of Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo Brazil	213.3	70.0	61.5	59.2
24	University of Goettingen University of Goettingen Germany	212.2	57.4	81.0	82.5
25	University of Montpellier University of Montpellier France	210.0	56.5	79.1	89.3
26	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette United States	209.2	57.2	80.6	70.6
27	University of Guelph University of Guelph Canada	207.2	59.9	72.8	73.3
28	Institut Agro Institut Agro France	205.6	61.1	81.9	7.8
29	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	204.4	51.0	85.3	85.5
30	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne Australia	203.7	54.9	79.2	73.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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