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 2016. 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)

100 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1	CNCI	IC	TOP	AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	292.7	100.0	74.3	55.5	100.0	0.0
2	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	227.1	80.4	91.2	81.8	52.8	0.0
3	Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington United States	225.5	84.1	65.4	64.0	46.7	67.4
4	Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University United States	218.7	67.5	88.4	38.3	69.5	0.0
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States	210.5	73.4	78.1	53.9	55.9	0.0
6	University of Washington University of Washington United States	193.8	65.8	73.7	54.6	52.8	0.0
7	Wuhan University Wuhan University China	192.8	84.1	72.3	70.8	23.3	0.0
8	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore Singapore	188.6	66.6	71.2	94.3	43.6	0.0
9	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park United States	187.0	61.8	74.1	58.5	42.9	42.6
10	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	185.9	61.4	71.0	48.9	53.5	0.0
11	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales Australia	185.6	65.3	82.9	83.6	37.8	0.0
12	Columbia University Columbia University United States	184.1	60.4	64.5	46.9	56.5	0.0
13	Georgia State University Georgia State University United States	180.9	66.6	77.4	72.8	35.0	0.0
14	University of Montreal University of Montreal Canada	179.9	64.9	91.1	84.4	28.6	0.0
15	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	178.6	61.4	70.9	82.4	42.9	0.0
16	University of Utah University of Utah United States	177.9	55.1	82.4	46.1	49.5	0.0
17	University of Arizona University of Arizona United States	177.8	63.6	74.8	63.1	38.7	0.0
18	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh United States	177.3	55.6	68.5	63.4	41.2	60.3
19	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston United States	176.7	51.4	79.3	46.2	55.3	0.0
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States	175.9	57.1	77.6	55.2	45.9	0.0
21	Stanford University Stanford University United States	175.2	55.1	69.4	63.7	51.5	0.0
22	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	172.0	54.6	75.1	51.6	47.4	0.0
23	Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School Denmark	171.8	54.0	100.0	98.6	30.9	0.0
24	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	171.6	54.6	61.7	42.8	38.7	79.8
25	University of Science and Technology of China China	171.4	54.0	99.4	65.7	34.0	0.0
26	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin United States	170.4	62.3	76.7	56.3	33.0	0.0
27	KU Leuven KU Leuven Belgium	170.1	70.7	70.4	86.9	20.2	0.0
28	Yonsei University Yonsei University South Korea	169.8	61.8	68.7	58.5	36.9	0.0
29	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology United States	169.0	57.1	87.5	76.6	31.9	0.0
30	University of Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Netherlands	168.8	65.3	80.9	85.3	21.8	0.0

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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