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)

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Harvard University Harvard University	296.7	100.0
2	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	291.2	60.6
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	281.5	39.3
4	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	276.8	56.6
5	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	259.5	45.8
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	258.5	46.7
7	Imperial College London Imperial College London	254.1	48.0
8	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	249.3	62.5
9	University of Washington University of Washington	246.2	51.3
10	Emory University Emory University	241.0	45.3
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	236.5	48.9
12	Duke University Duke University	233.2	51.0
13	University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh	232.9	52.1
14	The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne	227.7	47.0
15	University College London University College London	220.8	59.5
16	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	220.7	28.7
17	University of Toronto University of Toronto	220.2	66.2
18	Heidelberg University Heidelberg University	216.6	43.4
19	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	210.2	63.8
20	University of Leicester University of Leicester	207.9	22.8
21	University of Utah University of Utah	202.1	38.2
22	University of Nottingham University of Nottingham	200.1	27.3
23	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science	198.0	60.2
24	Stanford University Stanford University	196.0	54.4
25	Oregon Health and Science University Oregon Health and Science University	195.7	34.2
26	King's College London King's College London	192.0	47.5
27	Yale University Yale University	190.1	49.3
28	Columbia University Columbia University	189.7	50.7
29	The University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow	189.0	30.8
30	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	187.9	11.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020