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)	324.5	45.6
2	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	307.7	38.3
3	Stanford University Stanford University	291.9	35.3
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	266.4	100.0
5	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	265.7	44.4
6	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	260.0	33.4
7	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	255.9	78.9
8	Southeast University Southeast University	245.3	93.5
9	Xidian University Xidian University	232.3	95.9
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	230.8	38.8
11	Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University	228.8	30.0
12	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	228.2	85.2
13	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	227.6	32.4
14	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	225.6	23.7
15	Princeton University Princeton University	223.0	38.2
16	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	221.6	41.8
17	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	220.9	56.1
18	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	219.7	47.1
19	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	218.1	26.1
20	Imperial College London Imperial College London	215.6	50.6
21	Wuhan University Wuhan University	210.6	82.7
22	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	210.3	42.1
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	207.1	37.9
24	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	206.8	80.3
25	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	206.1	76.2
26	Beihang University Beihang University	203.9	77.8
27	University College London University College London	203.5	38.4
27	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	203.5	57.8
29	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	202.7	44.8
30	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	202.4	24.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020