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)

200 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	Total Score	Q1 CNCI IC TOP AWARD
1	Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Jiaotong University	282.8	98.5
2	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	277.2	86.8
3	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	271.4	91.7
4	Southeast University Southeast University	271.2	100.0
5	Tongji University Tongji University	260.7	88.8
6	Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology	244.7	75.8
7	Beihang University Beihang University	237.2	73.2
8	Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University	232.8	68.5
9	Southwest Jiaotong University Southwest Jiaotong University	223.5	69.3
10	University of Sydney University of Sydney	222.3	64.8
11	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	221.6	64.7
12	Xidian University Xidian University	219.0	71.0
13	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University	217.0	67.9
14	Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Institute of Technology	216.7	63.2
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	216.7	60.0
16	National University of Singapore National University of Singapore	209.8	58.7
17	Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University	208.8	58.1
18	The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong	207.4	57.1
19	University of Waterloo University of Waterloo	205.0	58.5
20	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia	202.0	55.5
21	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	201.9	53.4
21	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	201.9	63.6
23	Chongqing University Chongqing University	201.5	49.0
24	Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology	201.1	56.4
25	Dalian University of Technology Dalian University of Technology	199.7	57.1
26	Shenzhen University Shenzhen University	199.4	54.7
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	199.3	57.3
28	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	198.1	53.7
29	Central South University Central South University	196.9	54.6
30	Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology	196.1	58.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Methodology-Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020