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	TOP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	297.3	100.0	82.1	62.2	100.0
2	University College London University College London United Kingdom	236.7	77.5	78.5	80.1	73.2
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	232.4	64.2	89.7	61.4	85.1
4	Yale University Yale University United States	228.7	69.8	79.6	61.1	78.0
5	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	226.7	71.3	78.6	51.8	75.2
6	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	226.3	68.2	82.8	55.5	77.1
7	Columbia University Columbia University United States	224.2	69.6	79.3	59.7	74.2
8	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	218.4	76.9	72.9	75.1	59.0
9	New York University New York University United States	214.0	61.4	81.7	59.0	75.2
10	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	210.6	62.0	82.3	52.3	71.2
11	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	209.7	52.6	83.6	56.0	83.4
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	207.1	70.5	84.7	51.6	53.8
13	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	205.7	61.2	83.8	83.2	63.7
14	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	199.5	64.4	88.5	75.4	51.1
15	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus United States	198.5	57.7	78.7	56.1	67.0
16	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	197.6	53.3	82.8	60.6	70.2
17	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	194.8	64.8	76.8	53.6	53.8
18	Duke University Duke University United States	194.7	59.4	83.5	61.2	57.7
19	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	192.1	56.0	84.8	54.6	60.2
20	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	191.0	64.4	82.0	52.0	48.2
21	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	190.1	59.0	75.6	60.1	57.7
22	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands	189.7	62.3	77.7	76.8	49.6
23	King's College London King's College London United Kingdom	189.3	70.0	80.4	79.7	36.1
24	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	188.9	55.0	82.8	47.5	60.2
25	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis United States	184.9	55.9	88.2	59.7	51.1
26	University of Washington University of Washington United States	183.2	62.5	82.1	49.9	43.4
27	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University United States	179.0	52.7	82.1	51.3	53.8
28	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	178.5	53.7	78.1	51.3	53.8
29	Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands	178.3	60.4	76.3	78.1	41.7
30	Arizona State University Arizona State University United States	177.5	58.9	78.2	50.1	45.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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