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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	373.4	90.0
2	Princeton University Princeton University	356.7	78.6
3	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	342.8	100.0
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	337.3	86.0
5	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	337.0	95.8
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	328.4	89.3
7	Stanford University Stanford University	314.8	79.2
8	Harvard University Harvard University	314.6	88.2
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford	313.0	80.4
10	PSL University PSL University	306.6	81.6
11	University of Chicago University of Chicago	297.4	70.5
12	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	292.6	61.5
13	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	290.9	88.9
14	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	284.8	60.2
15	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	284.5	57.2
16	The University of Manchester The University of Manchester	280.5	62.3
17	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	279.2	97.4
18	The University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh	278.6	62.3
19	University of Geneva University of Geneva	273.0	61.6
20	University of Washington University of Washington	270.2	56.5
21	University of Science and Technology of China	263.1	95.9
22	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	262.8	88.5
23	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	261.7	93.0
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	261.5	70.4
25	Peking University Peking University	257.8	92.1
26	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	256.6	63.4
27	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	251.9	58.7
28	Cornell University Cornell University	251.8	55.4
29	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	250.3	70.6
30	Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	246.4	41.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020