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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Washington University of Washington	314.0	60.4
2	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	289.0	79.2
3	Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology	279.1	100.0
4	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	273.5	49.8
5	The University of Reading The University of Reading	263.0	60.2
6	Colorado State University Colorado State University	261.2	57.5
7	Princeton University Princeton University	242.5	52.4
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	234.5	45.9
9	Columbia University Columbia University	234.2	64.6
10	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	232.9	59.2
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	231.8	50.8
12	University of Oxford University of Oxford	228.9	51.1
13	University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Hawaii at Manoa	227.5	44.1
14	Université Paris Cité Université Paris Cité	225.2	68.4
15	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	217.0	66.6
16	Sorbonne University Sorbonne University	215.2	59.9
17	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	213.1	60.6
18	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	211.0	44.1
19	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	209.4	40.4
20	Nanjing University Nanjing University	209.1	61.2
21	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	209.0	63.7
22	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	206.8	62.9
23	Peking University Peking University	205.3	66.9
24	Texas A&M University Texas A&M University	203.7	43.0
25	University of Exeter University of Exeter	202.8	48.6
26	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	202.1	57.8
27	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	201.9	58.7
28	Yale University Yale University	198.3	31.6
29	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	195.9	48.7
30	University of Arizona University of Arizona	195.0	40.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020