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)

300 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Xidian University Xidian University	286.9	100.0
2	Southeast University Southeast University	284.9	97.1
3	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	284.8	95.9
4	Princeton University Princeton University	276.5	48.7
5	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	267.5	93.1
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	265.7	84.8
7	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	260.7	52.5
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	243.6	66.6
9	University of Southampton University of Southampton	242.7	53.7
10	University of Sydney University of Sydney	237.6	49.6
11	University of Technology Sydney University of Technology Sydney	231.0	60.4
12	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	228.1	55.0
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	228.0	30.3
13	University College London University College London	228.0	38.8
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	227.4	72.7
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	227.3	51.5
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	224.7	67.9
18	Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London	224.4	51.9
19	Stanford University Stanford University	220.7	20.2
20	The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong	220.5	39.5
21	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	216.9	67.0
22	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	215.4	51.7
23	Singapore University of Technology & Design	215.3	48.0
24	Kyung Hee University Kyung Hee University	214.1	50.8
25	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	214.0	61.8
26	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications	213.2	65.6
27	University of Houston University of Houston	212.9	51.2
28	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	210.1	44.4
29	University of Oulu University of Oulu	209.7	45.4
30	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	207.9	59.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020