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	TOP	AWARD
1	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	303.9	96.4	78.3	45.9	100.0	100.0
2	Griffith University Griffith University Australia	274.4	100.0	83.3	66.0	77.9	0.0
3	Karolinska Institute Karolinska Institute Sweden	270.1	99.3	81.3	69.6	75.6	0.0
4	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland Australia	265.1	96.2	80.8	62.4	75.6	0.0
5	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	263.9	73.5	88.4	71.6	82.4	27.0
6	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	260.4	85.2	73.6	54.6	70.7	100.0
7	Ghent University Ghent University Belgium	257.7	78.7	81.7	81.8	75.6	27.0
8	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	257.0	85.7	77.5	62.9	70.7	52.2
9	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney Australia	252.6	95.2	78.4	69.3	59.8	27.0
10	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	248.2	81.8	76.4	50.0	70.7	46.7
11	University of Southampton University of Southampton United Kingdom	248.0	55.8	99.1	87.7	75.6	0.0
12	University of Sydney University of Sydney Australia	242.5	92.3	75.9	58.2	62.7	0.0
13	Maastricht University Maastricht University Netherlands	238.8	58.7	84.7	87.7	77.9	0.0
14	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	237.0	70.5	83.2	62.7	70.7	0.0
15	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	235.9	61.8	77.5	48.7	77.9	44.7
16	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	235.4	61.8	83.9	83.2	73.2	0.0
17	Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology Australia	235.2	71.9	77.9	66.9	62.7	46.7
18	Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University Australia	232.6	75.9	78.3	66.3	59.8	27.0
19	Monash University Monash University Australia	232.3	89.4	77.1	61.4	53.5	0.0
20	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	231.7	62.9	93.8	91.6	56.7	0.0
21	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	229.6	83.0	70.5	70.1	56.7	27.0
22	New York University New York University United States	227.7	67.2	74.4	49.4	65.5	53.9
23	University of Washington University of Washington United States	226.3	72.5	72.5	54.3	56.7	68.8
24	Yale University Yale University United States	225.1	70.9	74.7	52.4	59.8	46.7
25	Chang Gung University Chang Gung University Taiwan, China	220.6	59.5	75.5	47.9	70.7	27.0
26	Emory University Emory University United States	219.3	71.9	72.7	45.8	53.5	60.3
26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	219.3	81.6	70.3	53.6	56.7	0.0
28	Uppsala University Uppsala University Sweden	218.0	75.0	82.4	71.2	46.3	0.0
29	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	217.2	64.0	76.0	72.8	62.7	0.0
30	University of Alberta University of Alberta Canada	214.2	67.5	72.2	66.8	53.5	38.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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