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	Princeton University Princeton University	287.9	65.9
2	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	279.0	81.4
3	University of Oxford University of Oxford	240.6	73.8
4	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	227.3	90.9
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	225.7	58.3
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	220.3	74.0
7	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	213.7	91.6
8	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	205.1	67.3
9	Stanford University Stanford University	196.6	54.4
10	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	195.9	56.6
11	Stony Brook University Stony Brook University	186.1	39.4
12	New York University New York University	184.4	53.2
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	174.6	50.7
14	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	165.7	53.2
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	164.6	55.1
16	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	162.5	54.8
17	Columbia University Columbia University	161.5	53.7
18	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	160.4	50.5
19	University of Toronto University of Toronto	159.3	56.8
20	PSL University PSL University	158.9	60.4
21	University of Warwick University of Warwick	157.2	51.6
22	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	155.7	37.7
23	University of Bonn University of Bonn	155.4	56.8
24	Imperial College London Imperial College London	155.2	62.5
25	University of Chicago University of Chicago	151.5	52.4
26	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	151.0	59.0
27	University of Geneva University of Geneva	148.1	32.7
28	Peking University Peking University	147.8	73.7
29	Harvard University Harvard University	147.7	44.4
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	142.1	58.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020