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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Science and Technology Beijing	263.1	93.3
2	Central South University Central South University	250.8	100.0
3	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	249.0	65.7
4	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	248.1	71.8
5	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	245.7	82.9
6	University of Tennessee - Knoxville University of Tennessee - Knoxville	244.3	37.5
7	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	236.5	83.5
8	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	231.7	88.2
9	University of Science and Technology of China	224.3	67.9
10	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	221.4	40.2
11	Imperial College London Imperial College London	214.8	34.5
12	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	212.0	24.7
13	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	210.7	36.5
14	Chongqing University Chongqing University	210.4	65.4
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	208.7	24.8
16	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	208.1	35.8
17	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	207.1	46.2
18	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	206.7	53.9
19	University of Oxford University of Oxford	205.6	28.3
20	The Ohio State University - Columbus The Ohio State University - Columbus	205.0	32.0
21	University of Leoben University of Leoben	203.6	36.4
22	Northwestern University Northwestern University	201.3	26.9
23	Monash University Monash University	200.7	32.2
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	199.4	25.9
25	Tohoku University Tohoku University	199.3	47.7
26	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	197.6	33.3
27	Technical University Darmstadt Technical University Darmstadt	196.4	28.0
28	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	195.1	28.4
29	RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University	194.3	38.6
30	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	194.0	22.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020