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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	339.2	55.7
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	314.8	84.4
3	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	291.7	52.2
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	285.7	42.3
5	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	284.0	85.6
6	Imperial College London Imperial College London	277.2	50.4
7	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	270.5	100.0
8	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	269.8	78.4
9	Southeast University Southeast University	264.6	90.4
9	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	264.6	46.7
11	Stanford University Stanford University	262.8	41.2
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	258.4	55.3
13	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	253.7	27.7
14	University of Toronto University of Toronto	253.0	41.8
15	Northeastern University (Shenyang) Northeastern University (Shenyang)	252.6	86.1
16	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	252.1	87.2
17	Beihang University Beihang University	249.8	87.0
18	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	249.6	89.7
19	University of Groningen University of Groningen	248.4	41.7
20	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	247.1	75.9
21	Harvard University Harvard University	242.6	38.5
22	The University of Newcastle, Australia The University of Newcastle, Australia	236.7	35.2
23	KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology	234.2	53.2
24	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	226.5	87.3
25	Guangdong University of Technology Guangdong University of Technology	222.8	63.4
26	Brunel University London Brunel University London	222.0	43.3
27	Polytechnic University of Milan Polytechnic University of Milan	221.8	49.3
28	University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine	220.4	23.8
29	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	219.5	43.0
30	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara	216.9	32.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020