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)

50 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Beihang University Beihang University	274.6	100.0
2	Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University	266.7	85.8
3	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	246.3	78.0
4	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	221.1	51.9
5	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	220.2	68.6
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	215.3	23.6
7	National University of Defense Technology	214.6	64.7
8	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	208.8	62.2
9	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	208.6	37.0
10	Purdue University - West Lafayette Purdue University - West Lafayette	201.4	24.5
11	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	197.2	28.8
12	Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology	191.0	24.1
13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	186.9	26.2
14	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	182.5	41.4
15	Sapienza University of Rome Sapienza University of Rome	182.3	33.5
16	University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder	175.6	29.1
17	Polytechnic University of Milan Polytechnic University of Milan	174.6	33.9
18	University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland, College Park	172.1	16.8
19	Imperial College London Imperial College London	171.5	22.3
20	Stanford University Stanford University	169.4	16.8
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	169.2	18.0
22	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	169.1	23.9
22	University of Southampton University of Southampton	169.1	19.8
24	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	167.9	22.3
25	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	167.6	20.5
26	Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Jiaotong University	167.4	34.9
27	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	166.9	22.7
28	University of Washington University of Washington	165.7	12.1
29	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	164.0	20.1
30	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	163.3	18.5

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020