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	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	336.8	53.2
2	Stanford University Stanford University	329.7	57.0
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	328.7	59.1
4	Northwestern University Northwestern University	309.9	54.8
5	University of Science and Technology of China	303.5	100.0
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	297.5	36.3
7	Harvard University Harvard University	291.7	52.4
8	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	289.7	93.8
9	Nankai University Nankai University	275.0	79.2
10	Peking University Peking University	269.7	80.3
11	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	266.4	90.6
12	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	264.1	82.6
13	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	260.9	46.5
14	Tianjin University Tianjin University	260.4	82.1
15	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	259.8	55.4
16	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	259.4	68.6
17	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	259.3	56.0
18	Nanjing University Nanjing University	259.1	80.3
19	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	256.7	82.5
20	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	256.4	55.7
21	Fudan University Fudan University	254.8	76.5
22	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	254.2	67.5
23	Soochow University Soochow University	253.8	79.2
24	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	250.7	59.2
25	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	249.2	87.2
26	Xiamen University Xiamen University	243.9	69.5
27	Jilin University Jilin University	242.0	83.0
28	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	239.3	74.0
29	Southern University of Science and Technology	237.9	62.2
30	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	234.0	47.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020