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.

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	292.6	100.0	78.5	70.7
2	University College London University College London United Kingdom	232.2	65.7	83.5	86.4
3	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	230.9	69.0	79.1	69.2
4	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	224.4	65.9	77.2	77.7
5	Stanford University Stanford University United States	215.6	61.0	79.9	68.2
6	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	213.9	54.6	87.4	86.4
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	209.7	52.3	88.0	85.4
8	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	206.0	47.4	93.7	87.7
9	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	204.9	56.2	79.2	66.7
10	Utrecht University Utrecht University Netherlands	204.5	55.4	78.9	73.7
11	Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine United States	202.7	55.8	79.6	57.6
12	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University Germany	201.8	52.4	82.7	71.3
13	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	201.3	56.7	75.8	60.4
14	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich Germany	196.9	48.6	84.6	75.2
15	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	195.1	44.6	89.1	83.8
16	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	195.0	51.4	80.1	60.4
17	Duke University Duke University United States	194.5	50.6	81.1	61.5
18	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	193.8	49.5	79.7	76.4
19	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center United States	193.0	52.9	74.9	61.4
20	New York University New York University United States	190.2	49.6	79.0	60.3
20	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	190.2	44.7	85.3	77.0
22	University of Zurich University of Zurich Switzerland	189.9	49.5	74.9	79.3
23	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	187.8	47.3	82.4	54.6
24	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	187.7	44.1	83.0	82.1
25	Medical University of Vienna Medical University of Vienna Austria	187.5	45.7	79.4	83.7
26	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	186.1	42.8	82.8	88.8
27	Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands	185.9	46.3	77.5	79.2
28	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	185.2	46.1	78.5	72.5
29	Yale University Yale University United States	183.9	45.6	79.8	64.3
30	Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin Germany	182.9	47.6	73.4	71.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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