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	Tongji University Tongji University	359.8	100.0
2	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	245.1	38.7
3	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	244.5	73.7
4	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	242.1	39.0
5	Southeast University Southeast University	240.5	84.7
6	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	238.9	75.4
7	Chongqing University Chongqing University	229.5	64.6
8	Polytechnic University of Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid	228.7	31.0
9	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	217.0	72.2
10	Central South University Central South University	213.2	63.6
11	Tianjin University Tianjin University	206.7	66.4
12	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	205.4	69.0
13	Hunan University Hunan University	204.4	58.1
14	National Technical University of Athens National Technical University of Athens	203.9	25.7
15	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	196.4	64.0
16	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	196.3	61.8
17	Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology	195.5	55.4
18	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	194.4	48.1
19	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	193.6	55.3
20	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	193.1	49.2
21	Beijing University of Technology Beijing University of Technology	191.7	54.5
22	University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame	189.9	17.9
23	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	188.9	50.7
24	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	187.9	47.4
25	Guangzhou University Guangzhou University	185.5	43.8
26	Western University Western University	185.2	27.2
27	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	183.2	42.5
28	Lehigh University Lehigh University	182.4	17.8
29	The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin	182.3	30.0
30	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	182.0	46.3

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020