2021 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.(See full Methodology)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	390.6	90.4	87.8	81.8	96.0	100.0
2	Princeton University Princeton University United States	352.6	74.6	85.5	81.2	76.2	100.0
3	Stanford University Stanford University United States	346.3	82.1	90.8	80.6	77.7	79.5
4	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	342.3	94.2	70.9	74.7	92.6	69.7
5	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	339.0	88.1	89.2	84.7	66.2	78.6
6	Harvard University Harvard University United States	335.3	95.8	87.1	85.4	72.2	63.0
7	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	334.8	82.1	87.4	82.1	89.6	59.4
8	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	334.1	88.2	85.9	83.4	76.9	66.4
9	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University France	321.5	91.6	76.2	86.6	100.0	36.4
10	PSL University PSL University France	315.9	80.1	79.3	86.6	75.0	64.2
11	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	298.2	91.0	84.4	87.7	75.6	29.7
12	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	298.1	63.5	92.5	91.8	64.3	59.4
13	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	289.8	60.5	86.4	78.4	56.5	70.7
14	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder United States	289.4	58.7	78.2	77.5	59.9	77.2
15	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University France	288.7	100.0	77.5	88.3	93.6	0.0
16	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester United Kingdom	284.3	60.7	78.0	90.5	54.8	72.8
17	University of Washington University of Washington United States	282.3	57.0	96.7	81.2	49.3	63.0
18	University of Geneva University of Geneva Switzerland	277.2	61.9	87.6	93.9	57.4	51.4
19	Cornell University Cornell University United States	271.6	54.8	85.6	79.1	51.2	64.2
20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	261.2	71.3	81.6	80.1	62.6	29.7
21	Columbia University Columbia University United States	259.6	59.2	97.8	83.7	51.5	34.3
22	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	258.4	73.2	86.4	80.1	82.8	0.0
23	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	257.9	61.2	87.2	78.0	51.9	42.0
24	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	257.2	81.3	80.6	89.3	77.5	0.0
25	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium	255.8	44.3	90.8	91.4	43.1	59.4
26	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	251.8	85.6	75.2	66.0	77.8	0.0
27	University of Paris University of Paris France	250.7	76.8	87.8	90.6	68.0	0.0
28	The Australian National University The Australian National University Australia	246.5	58.2	88.1	90.9	40.1	42.0
29	University of Munich University of Munich Germany	244.8	61.7	84.8	87.7	55.0	25.7
30	University of Science and Technology of China China	240.3	84.1	67.4	62.9	76.2	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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