2023 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

ShanghaiRanking began to publish world university ranking by academic subjects in 2009. By introducing improved methodology, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) was first published in 2017. The 2024 GRAS contains rankings of universities in 55 subjects across Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. More than 1,900 out of 5,000 universities across 96 countries and regions are finally listed in the rankings. The GRAS rankings use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects, covering in 5 major evaluation categories such as World-Class Faculty, World-Class Output, High Quality Research, Research Impact and International Collaboration. The index of international academic awards is based on Academic Excellence Survey (AES) conducted by ShanghaiRanking.(Methodology)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	290.6	100.0
2	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	255.3	79.8
3	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	230.7	66.5
4	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	225.6	65.7
5	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	225.3	68.7
6	Jiangsu University Jiangsu University	224.8	57.3
7	Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University	223.3	68.1
8	Nanchang University Nanchang University	216.0	60.0
9	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	213.3	59.7
10	Beijing Technology and Business University	212.9	61.5
11	Northeast Agricultural University Northeast Agricultural University	203.6	57.4
12	Wageningen University & Research Wageningen University & Research	203.5	65.9
13	University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst	202.9	44.8
14	Dalian Polytechnic University Dalian Polytechnic University	193.2	52.3
15	University of Vigo University of Vigo	186.1	38.9
16	University of Campinas University of Campinas	185.8	57.6
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	183.5	37.7
18	Hefei University of Technology Hefei University of Technology	183.3	40.4
19	Ocean University of China Ocean University of China	182.7	48.2
20	South China Agricultural University South China Agricultural University	182.0	50.7
21	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University	181.5	42.1
22	Anhui Agricultural University Anhui Agricultural University	179.7	41.5
23	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	179.6	43.5
24	Institut Agro Institut Agro	176.7	48.8
25	Southwest University Southwest University	176.6	43.3
26	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	175.8	42.2
27	Tianjin University of Science and Technology	175.5	48.0
28	University College Dublin University College Dublin	174.2	33.2
29	University of Porto University of Porto	173.6	45.0
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	172.7	43.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020