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	Harvard University Harvard University	307.6	59.3
2	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	296.0	100.0
3	Stanford University Stanford University	293.2	48.6
4	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	282.1	61.8
5	Peking University Peking University	276.4	85.3
6	Cornell University Cornell University	273.0	42.8
7	Nanjing University Nanjing University	270.5	81.1
8	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis	266.8	50.0
9	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	265.0	41.8
10	Michigan State University Michigan State University	261.2	42.8
11	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	258.5	88.9
12	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	247.6	39.4
13	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	245.9	51.7
14	Arizona State University Arizona State University	244.5	44.7
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	243.0	42.5
16	Princeton University Princeton University	241.9	33.1
17	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	240.0	78.8
18	Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich	237.7	38.0
19	Tongji University Tongji University	236.1	76.8
20	University of Alberta University of Alberta	235.2	49.0
21	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	232.0	47.2
22	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	231.3	77.7
23	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	231.1	48.9
24	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	226.7	46.6
25	Nankai University Nankai University	224.6	58.4
26	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	223.1	66.0
27	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	222.5	53.0
28	Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University	220.5	81.2
29	University of Toronto University of Toronto	220.4	50.1
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	218.1	70.9

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020