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)

400 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	University of Science and Technology of China	295.8	100.0
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	294.7	99.4
3	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	269.9	77.8
4	Peking University Peking University	269.3	88.5
5	Soochow University Soochow University	267.8	84.5
6	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	267.6	89.1
7	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	264.2	78.1
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	260.3	88.1
9	Fudan University Fudan University	258.3	81.7
10	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	257.6	78.0
11	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	255.5	82.7
12	Nanjing University Nanjing University	248.3	79.7
13	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	247.3	71.1
14	Tianjin University Tianjin University	243.0	74.2
15	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	239.8	72.4
16	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	238.5	71.6
17	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	236.6	65.8
18	Nankai University Nankai University	235.6	68.3
19	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	231.9	73.0
20	Southern University of Science and Technology	231.4	66.3
21	Stanford University Stanford University	228.0	60.7
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	227.8	64.9
23	Wuhan University Wuhan University	227.5	67.7
24	Jilin University Jilin University	226.7	70.6
25	Harvard University Harvard University	225.6	60.0
26	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	224.4	69.2
27	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	221.2	61.5
28	Sichuan University Sichuan University	221.0	69.3
29	Xiamen University Xiamen University	217.7	65.8
30	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	215.4	52.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020