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	307.3	100.0
2	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	267.7	94.0
3	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	267.5	98.7
4	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	266.3	71.9
5	Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Denmark	260.8	69.8
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	259.9	72.7
7	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	255.2	75.5
8	China Agricultural University China Agricultural University	251.3	72.5
9	Stanford University Stanford University	245.7	65.1
10	The University of Queensland The University of Queensland	237.6	57.2
11	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	237.5	63.5
12	Jiangnan University Jiangnan University	236.1	72.6
13	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	235.0	60.9
14	Shandong University Shandong University	232.4	75.0
15	Northwest A&F University Northwest A&F University	231.9	64.2
16	Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Agricultural University	228.1	63.2
17	Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing Forestry University	224.1	56.7
18	Tianjin University Tianjin University	223.2	62.4
19	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	222.2	67.7
20	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	221.9	77.6
21	University of Washington University of Washington	221.1	56.5
22	Tongji University Tongji University	220.8	67.6
23	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	220.3	55.2
24	South China University of Technology South China University of Technology	219.2	62.6
25	Hunan University Hunan University	218.8	50.4
26	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	218.1	56.8
27	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	217.9	57.9
28	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	216.8	54.4
29	Peking University Peking University	216.7	65.9
29	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	216.7	51.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020