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	Northwestern University Northwestern University	315.8	53.7
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	309.3	62.1
3	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	306.1	64.0
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	298.3	99.8
5	University of Science and Technology of China	297.7	100.0
6	Harvard University Harvard University	293.4	50.4
7	Stanford University Stanford University	288.6	56.0
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	285.2	73.8
9	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	282.4	55.7
10	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	277.9	47.6
11	Peking University Peking University	272.5	80.4
12	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	272.0	51.8
13	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	271.1	72.7
14	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	270.3	89.2
15	Soochow University Soochow University	266.4	77.4
16	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	265.9	94.0
17	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	253.6	79.9
18	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	252.8	86.6
19	Tianjin University Tianjin University	250.3	81.2
20	Fudan University Fudan University	245.5	73.2
21	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	244.9	66.7
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	244.5	52.5
23	Nanjing University Nanjing University	244.4	71.5
24	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	242.8	85.0
25	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	238.1	75.5
26	Southern University of Science and Technology	237.9	64.9
27	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	235.8	85.1
28	Imperial College London Imperial College London	235.7	55.9
29	Jilin University Jilin University	232.6	75.2
30	Nankai University Nankai University	232.4	62.2

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020