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	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	283.7	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	251.1	44.0
3	University of Science and Technology of China	246.7	80.4
4	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	243.6	98.1
5	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	240.2	78.1
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	240.2	84.9
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	236.1	47.4
8	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	234.5	66.0
9	City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong	233.3	52.2
10	Tianjin University Tianjin University	233.2	77.5
11	Imperial College London Imperial College London	232.9	54.0
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	230.0	43.6
13	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	228.5	51.3
14	Peking University Peking University	227.8	51.0
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	225.8	38.7
16	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	224.1	65.3
17	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	223.5	71.6
18	Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou University	221.8	51.5
19	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	219.6	53.6
20	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	219.0	46.0
20	Soochow University Soochow University	219.0	42.7
22	The University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales	217.6	48.3
23	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	216.1	41.9
24	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	215.6	76.9
25	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	213.7	37.5
26	Central South University Central South University	212.4	57.6
27	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	210.5	38.0
28	Shandong University Shandong University	209.0	57.1
28	Wuhan University Wuhan University	209.0	48.5
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University	208.6	24.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020